In this blog we are comparing Django and Node.js on the basis of some criterias. Those criterias  are performance speed, complexity, scalability, architecture, cost etc. Without wasting any time let’s start our comparison. Let’s analyze the architecture first

Architecture-Django runs on a Model View Template architecture which is similar to Model View Controller architecture. It separates your code into three main parts, model for data/code for different components of your app, view has code that controls how users see and interact with the app, controller has the code that controls the interaction between model and view. Node.js uses frontend JavaScript for backend development, You can write backend code from Node.js runtime while using the same JavaScript language in the frontend. Sharing of static code between backend and frontend is possible. Node.js packages are very small and modular, it has a package management problem. 

Security- We know python is one of the most secure languages so Django is secure. JavaScript tends to be fragile due to language design. You need to be very careful when using third party add-ons when using Node.js for developing banking applications etc.

Scalability- Comparatively Node.js is more scalable than Django. It is possible to scale with almost all programming languages with the right budget, time, talent but still there's something holding you back. In both Node.js and Django there is nothing like that.

Performance speed- If Python’s Global Interpreter Lock is not considered, Django is pretty fast. It is good for large scale data analysis and calculation. Both can have faster performance by multi process approaches to overcome single-threaded runtime.

Complexity- To a beginner Django is much more challenging to master than Node.js. Node.js is easy to learn.

Cost- If you are developing a big project you need to hire some developers. Standard rates for JavaScript developers tend to be lower than Python salaries. Node.js developers usually have knowledge in frontend so you don’t need to hire separate developers for frontend.