nodejs.org
Node.js
Who runs Node.js, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest JavaScript runtime alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Deno
Measured from Node.js’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Node.js01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Node.js
Node.js nodejs.org
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Wikidata: JavaScript runtime environment
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Node.js tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Node.js’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Node.js
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Node.js, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Deno, the drop-in JavaScript runtime for Node developers
A drop-in JavaScript runtime with built-in TypeScript, npm support, and security by default. Run your existing Node project on Deno with no setup.
Very close - 02
Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
Bundle, install, and run JavaScript & TypeScript — all in Bun. Bun is a fast JavaScript runtime & toolkit with a bundler, test runner, and npm-compatible package manager built in.
Very close - 03
Home page | Yarn
Yarn, the modern JavaScript package manager
Very close - 04
jQuery
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Very close - 05
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Close - 06
Welcome to Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Close - 07
React
React is the library for web and native user interfaces. Build user interfaces out of individual pieces called components written in JavaScript. React is designed to let you seamlessly combine components written by independent people, teams, and organizations.
Very close - 08
Lodash
A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras.
Very close - 09
A declarative, efficient and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
Very close - 10
Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework | Vue.js
Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework
Very close - 11
Home • Angular
The web development framework for building modern apps.
Very close - 12
Svelte • Web development for the rest of us
Web development for the rest of us
Very close - 13
Socket.IO
JavaScript library for realtime web applications
Very close - 14
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Very close - 15
Welcome to Boutell.Com, Inc.!
Very close - 16
The Go Programming Language
Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.
Very close - 17
Lit
Simple. Fast. Web Components.
Very close - 18
Kotlin Programming Language
Kotlin is a concise and multiplatform programming language by JetBrains. Enjoy coding and build backend, mobile, web, and desktop applications efficiently.
Very close - 19
web.dev
Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.
Very close - 20
nginx
open source web server and a reverse proxy server
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Node.js’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Node.js uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Node.js adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 49 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Node.js’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630a2ccc0b62b8-HAM
- Hosting
- Vercel header x-vercel-id: fra1::kix1::5lwgq-1793957009432-5c9796e82cef
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS pablo.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=v0MKccGKHVIlJbu0s9K45qnPGB7EBWnKzjpsd010r4E
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- Google Cloud DNS · not on nodejs.org 4/20
- Cloudflare 4/20
- Vercel 4/20
- Algolia · not on nodejs.org 4/20
- jQuery · not on nodejs.org 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on nodejs.org 4/20
- Netlify · not on nodejs.org 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on nodejs.org 3/20
- nginx · not on nodejs.org 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on nodejs.org 3/20
- Google Cloud · not on nodejs.org 3/20
- Fastly · not on nodejs.org 2/20
- Mailgun · not on nodejs.org 2/20