Strong community similarities • Drupal was created in 2001 by Dries Buytaert because he need a system for social communication • Thousands of developers on the core system • By developers, for developers • Active contrib community: 8.500+ modules available on drupal.org • Node.js was created in 2009 by Ryan Dahl because he needed a tool for creating network services • Thousands of developers on the core system • By developers, for developers • Active contrib community: 4.000+ packages available on NPM lørdag den 24. september 11
• Do things that was not possible before without learning $obscure_language or $weird_platform; • JavaScript everywhere • Speed is the new black • Web applications need responsive and stateful backends Why is Node.js so popular? lørdag den 24. september 11