Re: Using Node w/ Apache

I've wondering the same thing about apps implementing their own HTTP

service. It seems to me you'd have each app listening on its own port. Is
that good?

It can be used to great advantage, and messes can also be created. Let me
give my perspective: Imagine if an Apache configuration used RPG syntax to
define the various settings and routing rules. In short, it would require
one less syntax to learn and keep up to speed with, and also one less piece
of software in your stack to keep up to date; when a new release of RPG
came out then so did a new version of the web server.

Also note that a single Node.js web server could front many Node.js apps;
essentially playing the same role as Apache. The cool thing about this
approach is you could have the Node.js web server implement core tenants of
app infrastructure (i.e. authentication) so the other Node.js apps didn't
have to.

​I am not poo-pooing Apache/Nginx because I still use them and like them.
I am just loving how simple web servers are in Node.js. One thing I
haven't tried is putting a Node.js web server in front of other web servers
(i.e. Ruby's Puma).

[10 minutes later] Ok​, so I went looking and found this:
https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy So it's definitely possible.


Aaron Bartell
IBM i hosting, starting at $157/month. litmis.com/spaces


On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I've wondering the same thing about apps implementing their own HTTP
service. It seems to me you'd have each app listening on its own port. Is
that good?



-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Andelin [mailto:nandelin@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 11:31 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Using Node w/ Apache

What is not to like about the HTTP server capabilities in node?

I find it very cool that applications can implement their own HTTP server
- that Node makes that trivial. On the other hand, I question the wisdom of
every application implementing its own HTTP service.

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