Node.js vs. PHP: Understanding Server-Side Development

Creating the right toolkit of languages, frameworks, libraries, and databases is the first step towards executing a successful project. While understanding each tool’s pros and cons is a logical route to perform this comparative analysis, frontend and backend development teams can benefit more if they understand the context which dictates the ideal tools.

Server-side development is essential for engineering a functional and fluid web-based product — a website, an app, or a native web app. Client-side development deals with the user experience and how information is laid out. Server-side development is responsible for efficient organization and access to data stored in databases and web applications, made accessible using static resources like CSS and JavaScript or HTML templates and even data.