🆚 Node.js vs. Ruby on Rails
- 📈 Node.js is noticeably more popular than Ruby on Rails.
- 🌎 Node.js is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Ruby on Rails is more popular in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
Node.js
Ruby on RailsType
About
Node.js is a cross-platform, open-source 
JavaScript runtime environment, commonly used for building server-side and network applications.
It uses a non-blocking, event-driven architecture to handle many concurrent connections efficiently, includes a standard library for networking and file system operations, and provides access to over 3 million packages through the 
Npm registry.
Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web application framework that provides the tools needed to build database-driven applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
It emphasizes a standardized project structure and naming, follows DRY ("don't repeat yourself") and "convention over configuration" principles, includes the Active Record ORM for database interaction, a built-in asset pipeline for managing 
CSS and JavaScript, and an integrated testing framework.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Backend Frameworks category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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OpenJS Foundation company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.