These days I try to develop real time application using nodejs. That application want to update the dashboard according to api data.
I installed express and faye and try to compare what is the best and what are the differences of that two. As I know express is a node base framework and faye is a subscriber/publisher based one.
But I think both are almost same and anyone can help me to identify the differences? What is fast and what can be done using the frameworks like that ?
Thanks in advance.
They are not very comparable. If you want to create a real-time application, you will probably need to use both.
Express is a web framework. You will need it to serve and handle HTTP requests and responses. It will help you handle things like url routing, request/response handling middleware, interfacing with template engines, etc... Express is as fast as you'll get.
Faye is a pub sub messaging system- It will not be capable of handling standard HTTP requests and responses. You may be able to implement a live stream of the data using Faye, however, you will still have the need to serve up your client side application using Express.
I would also look into Socket.io as an alternative to Faye- in addition to Express.