Comparison NODE vs Elixir

Testing a JSON API implementation Node vs Elixir in the simplest way: returning a string.

Installation

Install elixir, phoenix, nodejs

npm -i in both folders

Start Testing

Install siege (mac) or ab (linux)

Start nodejs app: node server.js Start phoenix app: MIX_ENV=prod mix compile && MIX_ENV=prod PORT=4001 mix phoenix.server (Ignore the postgress error)

siege http://localhost:4000/api -c 200 -t 20S # node expess

siege http://localhost:4001/api -c 200 -t 20S # elixir phoenix