Does NodeJS need Apache or Nginx?

I am developing an eCommerce application in Node.

Js which makes use of Express and MongoDB. The application was launched as a static website with HTML/CSS and JavaScript for dynamic stuff. With the introduction of Ajax, the website needs to support dynamic content as well. Now, I am planning to change my application from static to dynamic by using Express and MongoDB. I have seen many examples on how to use Node.js and MongoDB and Express, but no one discusses about what kind of server will be the best?

Some of the things I know for sure are that, Node.js is asynchronous and non-blocking so it is not suitable for serving a website like apache or nginx, but since we are going to do dynamic stuff, express is the best choice, right? The other important factor is my application needs a high performance in handling a high traffic. Which server would better for this? I was thinking about something similar to Varnish, Nginx, or Apache for Node. The reason why I have this confusion is because when I started Node.js I didn't think about serving a website, and I only did what I had planned. So now, my application is growing and I am confused. Is Node.js for website hosting or not?

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Does node require to use Apache?

The node server on the other hand is not a webserver.

It does not serve any pages to any kind of browser. The webpages are served by Apache in the case of using Apache as a web server.

Node is basically used to serve static files. Apache on the other hand is a web server, it serves webpages. It can serve static files too. But we use Apache to serve static files for the webpages.

Apache is also a web server. No, node.js does not require Apache or Nginx in order to function. It can be used with Lighttpd, IIS, Tomcat, Glassfish, etc.

What is required for NodeJS?

NodeJS (node.js) is a free and open-source software platform built on Google Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine that provides a high-performance JavaScript runtime for networked servers. It is a fully functional runtime environment for the web server and web applications. NodeJS was created at Joyent and is currently maintained by the NodeJS Community, an international, non-profit organization with the mission to "envision, design, implement and maintain the next generation of Node.js". It provides a standard JavaScript API and runtime environment, a REPL or "Read-Eval-Print-Loop", a package manager and an asynchronous event-based I/O model, a system for hosting and running other applications on the platform, and provides native addon support.

How to install NodeJS? The official documentation contains all of the information you need to get started with NodeJS. After it's installed, the only required configuration for your NodeJS instance is the path where the JavaScript files are. If you have multiple files, the path should be the first argument passed to `node` in the file.

```sh. Node index.js --path app.js
## How does it work? A NodeJS process consists of an event loop and three threads: The Main thread this is the main thread. This thread is responsible for starting all the other threads, including the HTTP server. This thread runs continuously and runs the event loop.

The I/O thread The `http.Server` thread. This thread runs continuously in a loop until the event loop is closed. It takes care of reading requests from a file or TCP socket and dispatching them to the other threads.

The Timer thread A thread that schedules events. This thread starts when the event loop starts, and also when each I/O operation finishes.

The most important aspect of node.js is the event loop. The event loop handles every request by dispatching them to the I/O thread, and doing I/O operations after calling the corresponding async callback. All three threads run asynchronously.

## Event loop. The `NodeJS.events` module provides APIs that help create new events or connect to existing ones. To start up an event loop, call `NodeJS.once('foo')`.