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If you're comparing to J2EE, ASP.NET, Apache, etc, application servers tend to be big monoliths with lots of features, but Node is much lighter / more modular,
by garysieling 10y ago
If you're comparing to J2EE, ASP.NET, Apache, etc, application servers tend to be big monoliths with lots of features, but Node is much lighter / more modular, so you end up setting that up yourself (that also surprised me)