The good thing about NGINX is that it's perceived as language agnostic. So no matter what your codebase lang, you can always put an nginx on top. While Node too

The good thing about NGINX is that it's perceived as language agnostic. So no matter what your codebase lang, you can always put an nginx on top. While Node tools, are only good if you use them within a Node stack (see Strongloop). As far as I know nginx is powering 150M websites/apps.