Better alternatives to node.js?

[andrewstuart]

Is there a better alternative to node.js? Something that still provides server side Javascript, but has built in HTTP compression, built in SSL, and built in support for multiple cores? You know, the essentials. Kind of tedious to have to code that stuff into an application - it's meant to be handled by the web server, not really the business of the application.

[elliottcarlson]

"Node.js is an evented I/O framework for the V8 JavaScript engine. It is intended for writing scalable network programs such as web servers." [1]

Node.js is not a web server, and therefor it should not have web server functionality built in to it. You are able to build a web server using Node.js if you so desired. What you are looking for is a Server Side JavaScript WebServer which there are a few of - none that I have tried.

Ones to look at include Firecat [2], Appweb [3], EJScript [4] and jsws [5]. These were found with a google search for "javascript web server".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodejs [2] https://launchpad.net/firecat [3] http://appwebserver.org/ [4] http://ejscript.org/ [5] http://code.google.com/p/jsws/

[andrewstuart → elliottcarlson]

Why thank you!

[keeganpoppen]

Even something like Connectjs (http://github.com/senchalabs/connect), which isn't even a would get you a lot of the way there. They have a lot of middleware bundled with it, and a lot of people since have written stuff to work with it.

[paulbaumgart]

http://ringojs.org/wiki/web_framework/