Sorry I didn't reply sooner, I didn't see this post. I personally don't see the problem with relational databases under Node.js. In fact, I love the ORM tools like bookshelf but I have the option of communicating directly with the db as well. I have implemented 2 real time international freight tracking solutions now with node. The author of that article totally missed node's ability to spawn and manage sub-processes. So CPU intensive tasks aren't a problem if you identify them. Have a look through the comments and you will see that I am not the only one who believes that they are not a problem. In fact, I am using them to talk to VFP COM servers.
The "chat" ability of node.js is in a process called socket.io and it means that your frontend can receive notifications from the server. That is very powerful in a web-based real time business application. Hopefully that clarifies some issues for you. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:38 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > I am interested in something like this to create a UI in a browser. > > However, I don't think Node.js is very good for my accounts receivable > relational database (VFP9 SP2) application. Here is what I found on this > page: http://www.toptal.com/nodejs/why-the-hell-would-i-use-node-js > > "Using Node.js with a relational database is still quite a pain (see below > for more detail). Do yourself a favour and pick up any other environment > like Rails, Django, or ASP.Net MVC if you’re trying to perform relational > operations." > > Of course, I did not read everything as there is a lot available. I got > the impression that "chat" was the ideal type of application for Node.js. > Maybe someone who knows more about it could add to this? > > > > On 5/20/2014 10:04 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > >> >> On Tue, May 20, 2014, at 03:34 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: >> >> Node.js looks interesting. I brought it up at a dev group meeting last >>> year but it was shot down because it was different. >>> >>> Different? Half the world is using it and jquery. >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cakt3opdsnkzdbkle0qnl7yj1vvsc+o--vtrwyxaisz9us6f...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
