Chapter 18: Node.js Application Deployment
You’ll eventually want to release your Node.js web app to the world. Deployment options have grown exponentially since the runtime was released in 2009. This chapter describes general types of production hosting, with links to appropriate companies, but the range of services and prices changes daily.
Pages vs Applications
Many readers of this book will be familiar with PHP—the world’s most-used web programming language. WordPress alone runs almost half of all websites. A PHP application consists of .php files that are interpreted by the PHP runtime when they’re accessed via a server such as Apache. HTML or data is then returned to the user’s browser.
The following points are important to note:
Each ...
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