How do I achieve the same performance as a multi-threaded language with nodejs, which is single threaded?

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How do I achieve the same performance as a multi-threaded language with nodejs, which is single threaded? #4246

Closed ItaloCobains closed 10 months ago

ItaloCobains commented 10 months ago

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I've already made some nodejs api's for some of my projects but I've been having some performance problems and I was recommended to use some multi thread frameworks like python's fastapi, I really like nodejs and I wanted to have the same performance for both rest apis and websocket etc. How can I achieve this? I'm no expert so I might be talking shit.

Node.js version

nodejs=20.6.1

Example code

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Operating system

Windows 11

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ljharb commented 10 months ago

to be clear, node isn't a language; JS is. node also supports wasm and native modules, so you can author in C++, Rust, etc, if the performance of JS isn't to your liking.

ItaloCobains commented 10 months ago

Sorry for calling node a language, do you have any article or document explaining how to create and use these modules?

thanks for the help.

ljharb commented 10 months ago

I don't have anything off the top of my head; https://blog.risingstack.com/writing-native-node-js-modules/ is something i just found on google.

ItaloCobains commented 10 months ago

thank you.