You're saying that as if blogs and corporate websites weren't a humongous proportion of the internet.

And no, there's some pretty big, modern sites like Mailchimp which run on PHP.

There's literally no reason to use Node if you already have an effective backend with PHP because Node doesn't really bring anything new on the table, but it does bring along its own class of issues.

> because Node doesn't really bring anything new on the table

You can't write a production grade web socket server in PHP. and no ReactPHP isn't my definition of production grade. If your app is real time you just can't use PHP for that.

So yes, Node brings something new to the table.

Which is trivially compartmentalized through a Node proxy server that takes up at most 1000 lines of code. Nobody's throwing out their code for that.

> Which is trivially compartmentalized through a Node proxy server that takes up at most 1000 lines of code. Nobody's throwing out their code for that.

You just said, Node brought nothing new to the table, obviously you were wrong.