PHP has been with us for a long time and developers favorite till date!
But there are reports out this week denoted the growing popularity of a different server-side language, as more firms turn to use node.js Javascript at the backend of their websites and services. Hence the battle between Node.js JavaScript vs PHP became more fierce
While JavaScript has for quite some time been utilized as a scripting language in internet browsers, as of late it's additionally begun being utilized on servers at the backend of the web, running inside the Node.js environment.
As the web turns out to be more capable, moving past basic sites to likewise incorporate single-page web applications, so the utilization of Node.js JavaScript on servers is expanding.
That shifting use was obvious in a survey this week, with developers who utilize the front-end Vue.js JavaScript structure announcing they use Node.js JavaScript as a back-end language more much of the time than PHP, as you can see from the below table.
| Node.js | 53% |
| PHP | 44% |
| C#/ .NET | 19% |
| JAVA | 19% |
| Ruby (on rails or otherwise) | 10% |
| Python (Django, or otherwise) | 19% |
| Other | 10% |
The growing ubiquity of Node.js JavaScript was caught by the 2018 Node.js User Survey, which likewise revealed insight into how the language is being utilized.
"Node.js keeps on observing it's prominence develop on each continent and in an exceptionally wide arrangement of utilization cases because of its adaptability and utility for a wide assortment of utilization cases", it stated, with web applications being the most mainstream use case, followed by big business applications.
Obviously, the issue with the reviews above is they are campaigning developers who work fundamentally with JavaScript, and who as a result might be bound to pick Node.js at the backend.
It's also not really the case that organizations either entirely utilize a solitary back-end language. An organization may utilize Node.js JavaScript for certain sites and services and PHP on servers supporting other locales.
That double use is borne out by the studies, with just about 33% of developers saying they utilized PHP nearby Node.js in the 2018 Node.js client review, while respondents to the Vue.js study additionally announced utilizing an assortment of languages at the backend.
It's likewise likely evident that most of the world's sites still keep running on PHP, given its utilization for massively well known Content Management Systems (CMS, for example, Drupal, Joomla, and Wordpress. That inheritance of an immense number of locales running on PHP means interest for developers with PHP aptitudes is probably not going to dry up at any point in the near future.
What is your thought on the Node.js vs PHP comparison? What do you think is the best for backend development.
