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Yes, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned child processes or the Cluster module.

https://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html

There are a lot of knowledgable people commenting, but it's starting to seem like they haven't familiarized themselves with the tools available within the NodeJs base.

To another point, I could put the time into writing a server and back end application in Go or Rust or C++ or whatever, but it would take (at least me) 10x as long to build out the application I need as it does to pull express into a project and build out a server, back end computations, file manipulation, authentication, and roll a MongoDB store with a fully-fleshed out front end (even if it's not so stylish).

Mind you I work in an enterprise environment where these kinds of things are required to serve maybe twenty people and run on a single multi-cored machine at any given time and not tens of thousands users.

It's a fantastic tool that works from small to mid-large projects, and would serve as an excellent prototyping and MVP-dev environment for even the naysayers who are probably more skilled than I am in other areas.




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