Nodejs is not trying to emulate PHP, because its intended usage is completely different - if you want to provide REST services for the frontend written in JS, why would you need to bother with passing stuff through apache? Not to mention that you can pass node through nginx.
And in what world are the open source servers 'commercial http servers'?
I'll give you the link I gave on some other site that hosted that:
They still have a lot of functionality missing to get to the level of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGU8dlvOPUY
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Nodejs is not trying to emulate PHP, because its intended usage is completely different - if you want to provide REST services for the frontend written in JS, why would you need to bother with passing stuff through apache? Not to mention that you can pass node through nginx. And in what world are the open source servers 'commercial http servers'?
+1 to that.
I'll give you the link I gave on some other site that hosted that: They still have a lot of functionality missing to get to the level of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGU8dlvOPUY