Application Framework

Week 3-Lecture 3

This week’s lecture covered about Nodejs. How it has an event loop which allows it to be very efficient although a single thread is present.

Thin Client vs Fat Client?

A thin client maybe an input device such as an mouse where most of the processing is being done of the server side.A think client is cheaper and easier to use.Fat client refers to big applications which requires a server of it own such as software development or video game facilitation. A fat client allows offline users to locally implement installed applications.A fat client has it’s own storage and complete OS

Yarn vs NPM?

Both are package managers which basically does the same thing. NPM is widely used by many javascript developers ,due to it’s high flexibility, around the world.Yarn which is a new package manager that runs operations in a parallel format to maximize resource utilization so install times are faster than that of npm. Both NPM and Yarn are open source tools. Yarn is less popular when compared to NPM.

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