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Asked: 2026-05-27T09:46:47+00:00

A little update to the common question. As of the current version of Nodejs

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A little update to the common question. As of the current version of Nodejs v0.6.5, is it safe to run it as a webserver in production? I really wanna skip the step of using nginx for example for proxy. I am gonna use Expressjs, nowjs, gzippo. And nginx doesnt support websockets yet, and it’s a little hard to setup socket.io over ssl. Are there any more benfits to nginx other than that it serves static files better?

Any advice on this matter? And if it’s ok to run as a webserver, are there any other modules worth concidering?

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  1. Editorial Team

    To be honest aside from serving static file I don’t really see any important benefits (though Nginx may have more server-specific extensions).

    Also you might want to use bouncy or node-http-proxy for proxying and browserify to use you server-side modules on the frontend.

    Edit: also you would not be the first using Node without Nginx, as far as I know Trello and other websites are also using it.

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