Node JS vs Laravel

Geekboots ⚭ Programming ⚭ Jan 8, 2020 ⚭ 1401 views

In this post, we are going to find out the differences between Laravel and Node JS to help you to decide the better framework for your projects.

Laravel

Laravel is an open source PHP framework. It has captured the imagination of web artisans over the years. Laravel is a web application framework with an expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

Node JS

Node JS is a server-side platform built on Google Chrome’s JavaScript Engine (V8 Engine). Node JS is an open source, a cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side and networking applications. It was developed by Ryan Dahl in 2009. It uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.  Node.js applications are written in JavaScript and can be run within the Node JS runtime on OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. It also provides a rich library of various JavaScript modules which simplifies the development of web applications using Node JS to a great extent.

Node JS vs Laravel

• Laravel is a PHP MVC framework. On the other hand, Node JS is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.

• Node JS is leading in Top 10K Sites, Top 100K Sites, Top 1M Sites, and The Entire Web. And Laravel is still behind Node JS in all market share segments.

• Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient.

• Laravel is leading in Business & Industry, Shopping, Career & Education, Travel and 95 other categories. On the other side, NodeJs has better usage coverage in more websites categories. Including Arts & Entertainment, Internet & Telecom, Computer & Electronics, Autos & Vehicles and 122 other categories.

• Laravel is fantastic and integrates well with a frontend view library.

• Node JS works with Express JS and it’s perfect for MongoDB/MongooseJS. On the other hand, Laravel it’s perfect for Mysql/MariaDB.

• Laravel is a good future bet. It’s not just a fully featured framework, but a comprehensive ecosystem with some of the best learning resources available. Laravel provides a “cradle to grave” first party tooling support from VM based development environments through to provisioning and deployment.

• Node is great, and a valuable skill to have.

• The templates of Laravel frameworks are innovatively designed to create a simple layout with distinctive sections.

• Node.js allows server-side rendering. This means you can render your page on the server before it hits the browser, allowing users to see the page quicker.

• Laravel is leading in most countries, including Poland, Indonesia, Netherlands, Turkey, and 118 other countries. In contrast, NodeJs is leading in the United States, Russia, Brazil, China, and 89 other countries.

• If need a lightweight service-based architecture, go with Node. If need a full-scale framework to manage a large CMS based website, go with Laravel.

• Laravel framework offers the Eloquent ORM that includes a simple PHP Active Record implementation. It lets the web app developers issue database queries with PHP syntax rather than writing SQL code.

• In Node JS, there’s an opportunity to share code between the frontend and backend apps or even make the app isomorphic.

• Laravel takes care of the web application security within its own framework. It uses hashed and salted password that means the password would never save as the plain text in a database. It also uses “Bcrypt Hashing Algorithm” in order to generate an encrypted representation of a password.

• Because Node JS is open-sourced, there are many awesome packages by the community provided by npm.

You can share your experiences with us in the comment section. Thank you!