Node.js vs. Python: How to choose the best technology to develop your backend

• libuv

  75 23,219 9.1 C

  Cross-platform asynchronous I/O

  

Node.js is single-threaded, non-blocking, and implements an event-driven architecture. It has a single thread where all code you write and the libraries you use executes. It also makes use of other threads that the libuv C library provides to handle expensive or long-running tasks.

• nan

  5 3,245 5.1 C++

  Native Abstractions for Node.js

  

TypeScript has gained popularity in recent years, and to put things into perspective, it has over 29 million weekly downloads on npm. According to the Stack Overflow 2021 developer survey, it is ranked as the third most-loved programing language, beating Python, Node.js, and JavaScript itself. To learn how to set up TypeScript with node, see this article.

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• axios

  437 103,912 8.5 JavaScript

  Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

  

Axios: for making API requests

• lodash

  187 58,843 5.1 JavaScript

  A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance, & extras.

  

Lodash: a utility library

• awesome-nodejs

  12 55,719 5.3

  :zap: Delightful Node.js packages and resources

To discover more packages, see the curated awesome-nodejs repository on GitHub.

• awesome-python

  85 204,062 7.1 Python

  An opinionated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

See the awesome-python GitHub repo for a comprehensive list.

• fastify

  124 30,512 9.4 JavaScript

  Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js

  

Node was developed by Ryan Dahl and was released in 2009, becoming an instant hit as it allowed JavaScript developers to write JavaScript code outside the web browser for the first time. Over the years, it has grown and become a strong contender to older languages like Python, and offers a bunch of tools for backend development, such as Express.js, Fastify, and NestJS.

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• Django

  484 76,672 9.8 Python

  The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

  

Python is constantly evolving, and it has mature web frameworks such as Django, Flask, and FastAPI that you can also use in your backend development projects.

• Socket.io

  825 60,085 7.8 TypeScript

  Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)

  

Real-time applications: using a library like socket.io

• warehouse

  274 3,465 9.7 Python

  The Python Package Index

  

Python also has an active community, with over 370k packages and 3.4 million releases on the Python Package Index. You can download them to your project using pip, a package installer that pulls packages from the Python Package Index.

• Nest

  312 64,099 9.9 TypeScript

  A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript 🚀

  

Node was developed by Ryan Dahl and was released in 2009, becoming an instant hit as it allowed JavaScript developers to write JavaScript code outside the web browser for the first time. Over the years, it has grown and become a strong contender to older languages like Python, and offers a bunch of tools for backend development, such as Express.js, Fastify, and NestJS.

• Iron python

  34 1,062 3.7 Python

  Implementation of the Python programming language for .NET Framework; built on top of the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR).

  

IronPython: allows Python to integrate smoothly with Microsoft's .NET framework

• Flask

  135 66,287 8.7 Python

  The Python micro framework for building web applications.

  

Python is constantly evolving, and it has mature web frameworks such as Django, Flask, and FastAPI that you can also use in your backend development projects.

• fastapi

  462 70,541 9.7 Python

  FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

Python is constantly evolving, and it has mature web frameworks such as Django, Flask, and FastAPI that you can also use in your backend development projects.

• flask-celery

  7 201 10.0 Python

  Celery integration for Flask (SINCE CELERY 3.0 THIS IS NO LONGER NEEDED)

Celery

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