“Spawn a thread”-like behaviour in node.js

Question

I want to add some admin utilities to a little Web app, such as \"Backup Database\". The user will click on a button and the HTTP response will return immediately, although

Answer 1

As supertopi said you could have a look at Child process. But I think it will hurt the performance of your server, if this happens a lot sequentially. Then I think you should queue them instead. I think you should have a look at asynchronous message queues to process your jobs offline(distributed). Some(just to name two) example of message queues are beanstalkd, gearman.