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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by Felk on Sunday September 03, 2017 @09:12AM (#15161258)
Yes, but you should proxy your Node.js application behind a production ready webserver like nginx or Apache anyway.
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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by tannhaeuser on Sunday September 03, 2017 @10:32AM (#15161590)
Why?
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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by jszymborski on Sunday September 03, 2017 @12:16PM (#15162203)
Because your nodejs server will get DDOS'd when 10 people access it simultaneously.

(Hyperbole that hopefully illustrates my point)

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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by tannhaeuser on Sunday September 03, 2017 @12:43PM (#15162390)
No it won't, unless you're doing something stupid in your app, such as using synchronous or CPU-heavy code. But putting nginx in front of it doesn't save you here either; you'd need a caching reverse proxy instead.

The only thing where nginx might help performance-wise here is static file access (of eg. static web assets such as CSS or static HTML).

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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by k__ on Monday September 04, 2017 @02:50PM (#15170137)
Hm, I use Nginx mostly for routing and static files and not for performance reasons.
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