Joomla vs Node.js | TrustRadius

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Score 7.5 out of 10

Based on 276 reviews and ratings

Score 9.2 out of 10

Based on 14 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Joomla

Node.js

Role-based user permissions

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API

Internationalization / multi-language

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WYSIWYG editor

Code quality / cleanliness

Admin section

Page templates

Library of website themes

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Publishing workflow

Form generator

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Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Availability / breadth of extensions

Community / comment management

Pros

Multiple templates assigned on a page-level basis allow fine-grained control of your site design
Excellent ACL out-of-the-box means you can have a mutli-user website up and running without needing to install anything additional
Straightforward control panel and useful help features and documentation make it easy for people to manage their own websites

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Owner | Principal

LMK Web Design & ConsultingInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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C and C++ plugins are good for heavy calculations.
Easy to use and maintain with a little knowledge of Javascript.
A wide range of json support.
It provide robust technology to work.

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Engineer Intern

GREAT FUTURE TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITEDInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Updating was never as seamless/easy as it seems to be with Wordpress. Obviously we accounted for this with our own workflow/methods, but I remember whenever we did WordPress updates it always seemed a breeze compared to the time/energy involved with a Joomla update/upgrade.
For a while (I think this has changed some) Joomla left itself open to attacks when administrators were not as well versed as they should be. There were developer additions that did security checks/audits for you, but the CMS was the subject of a lot of attacks when left in the hands of our clients for a long time (who had changed permissions to make editing easier/convenient). Ideally the CMS would have been more restrictive on some of these things to prevent easy abuse. Obviously this is more the fault of the misinformed/human then the CMS, but it could have been more dummy-proof.
No native versioning. There are some community extensions that add this functionality, but they pale in comparison to the versioning plugins of other CMS's (WordPress specifically). Again this was some time ago and in our experience, it could have changed by now.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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There are no cons in the approach we use.

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Jedrzej Marciniak

CTO (Chief Technical Officer)

KamikazeMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Joomla 10.0

Based on 28 answers

I gave it a rating of 10 because I just love how Joomla! works, how it is set up and how it handles many users. Also it is very fast, and there is no overload on the MySQL database or servers ever.

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Leontine Vandermeer

Owner

Lionsites Web DesignInternet, 1-10 employees

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No score

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Usability

Joomla 9.9

Based on 7 answers

Joomla! 3.x is easily installed either manually or via a script provided by your host. It contains most of the tools needed to begin creating websites right from the start. Those features that it doesn't have are easily installed via links and buttons from the thousands of extensions available in the community

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Freelance Web Designer and Content Strategist

Words To Web, Inc.Online Media, 1-10 employees

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No score

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Performance

Joomla 7.8

Based on 2 answers

Today's Modern Joomla performs very well and is robust and durable. The pages load faster than they ever did in the past and Modern Joomla's integration into other software or systems has become seamless. Modern Joomla sites will last long and will stay running forever.

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Webmaster \ Web Developer for the City of Pomona

Jaymersun Website ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Joomla 10.0

Based on 4 answers

Between the core Joomla developers who are excellent at answering questions and providing support, you have a whole community of developers who work with Joomla and are happy to help fellow developers out answering questions and supporting the Joomla project. Out of the many communities I am involved in for open-source software, Joomla's community is by far the best.

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Jen Garfinkel-Canseco

Owner - Web Designer/Developer/Marketer

Programmer JenInternet, 1-10 employees

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Node.js 6.4

Based on 1 answer

Node.js is easy and good to use, their support team is also good they always tend to help you, and solve your problem,even we know that Node is free to use and opensource but then also we get support from them but for getting much better results we need to purchase standard or enterprises support provided by them.

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Engineer Intern

GREAT FUTURE TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITEDInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

Joomla 8.7

Based on 3 answers

Joomla has gone through tremendous growing pains. It is now better than ever. But before, when it was going from 1.5-2.5, the templates and plugins would break over and over again. If you don't understand what Joomla was trying to do back then, you might have a bad attitude toward it. Today, those pains are over and things don't break like they used to during that time period.

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Webmaster \ Web Developer for the City of Pomona

Jaymersun Website ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS. 
But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content.
Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time. 
It allows you to maintain visual standardization and offers many options for working with images. 
With its ability to control access to different articles, categories or even different components, it is a great tool, even if they are managed by different people.

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Fernanda Ministerio

Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial

SENAI-DNNon-profit Organization Management, 10,001+ employees

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Other alternatives would be Python or Ruby, both of which are inferior in terms of performance, usability, scalability, and error handling.

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CTO

DittachComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Joomla has reduced our costs of rolling out a new website because it uses less developer time and can be rolled out by individual users as needed.
Joomla has a lot of extensions and add-ons that make it easy to create and implement advanced solutions quickly.

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Web Content Manager

VertMarkets, Inc.Publishing, 51-200 employees

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Node.js allows us to get more systems up and running quicker
Zero cost
Robustness

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Verified User

Professional in Corporate

Research Company, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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