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I have a big doubt, I am studying a little node.js and I am unable to understand some things.

  1. If node.js is a webserver, I can not run it within the Apache, right?

  2. Let's say I have an apache server and it installed Drupal. I'm building a theme and created some tasks to run on gulp.js. Necessarily, I need to install node.js for gulp.js work, right?

  3. So as I will run gulp.js in my apache server? I see several devs running gulp.js / node.js on Apache servers and can not understand.

I get on an Apache server, run drupal and gulp.js?

Marcelo Araujo
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  1. Nodejs is an execution platform , it's more like a JVM for javascript than Apache http server.
  2. Gulp.js is a serverside javascript tool , so it needs a serverside javascript execution platform to run , something that understands what the gulp commands are saying , nodejs being the best and most popular.(as far as I know).
  3. I don't know about "installing" nodejs 'inside' apache server , but I know that to share data between them both ( even url requests) most developers pipe data from one server to another via a specific apache directive called proxyPass.

You can learn more about this technique in the following thread : Apache and NodeJS

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Hichem Abassi - هشام العبّاسي
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