Hello, why Free Code Camp choose to teach Node.js instead of PHP which seems to be easier, and mostly 80% of websites are using PHP so saying in short it’s more popular and wanted in my opinion. Regards, Matthew.

I’d also like to see a statistic of that 80% claim. I would venture a guess that whatever that number currently is, it’s been decreasing rapidly since the emergence of Ruby On Rails, and then even faster as soon as Node entered the scene.

I heard PHP is slowly dying as people are moving on with NodeJS and Ruby/Python as back end languages. Don’t quote me on it.

I know FCC has an emphasis on teaching the full stack in Javascript, one reason being that you can code the entire web stack in this language. I think there are some advantages for doing this because all the code is in the same language, and I have read that Javascript is gaining in popularity for t…

My opinions about PHP the language are strong and not even a little bit complimentary. But laying those aside, I feel I still must pile on and point out that PHP is in fact in rapid decline: It has no credible REPL or standalone environment. Many languages do fine without a REPL, but the standa…

In my opinion, PHP is way ahead than node.js because it is considered to be the simplest and offers the developers to combine coding with content, as it can do faster coding without compilers, deployment and JAR files. Moreover, php is synchronize with MySQL and most of the stable code and developed…

Hey, I agree with you that the most basic stuff (editing html based on variables / form submission / sessions) might be easier in PHP (no real setup needed). Most people here are already familiar with javascript and so Node is way easier, than PHP with its weirdness . As far as I know it is possible…

While I was in college taking PHP, VB and Javascript course in the same semester it was very difficult to keep the syntax straight and try to remember which one was which. Keeping everything focused on Javascript (at least while learning) makes things a lot simpler.

But there exist a lot of companies use PHP

OMG, I see so many people here from the other side of barricade :slight_smile: I’ve been coding in PHP for almost a year, and I had very negative attitude to JS and jQuery as this language was pretty unclear and chaotic for me, comparing it to simple PHP. On the job market, job offers searching for …

Why Node.js instead of PHP

Oxyrus January 26, 2017, 12:51pm 12

But JavaScript will take over. Plus, PHP is an annoying programming language.

PHP OOP or Procedural

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