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Anything JS / NodeJS doesn't work like that and that's precisely one of the issues with it. Node will also keep running a process in the background even if the website/app isn't ever accessed wherever PHP won't be running anything until a request comes.
Yikes, pretty bizarre considering stateless endpoints is the gold standard.
Re: persistent process, that doesn't seem like a big deal, to me. It's pretty normal since you often want to keep some common stuff going, like metrics. Unless you're doing something crazy it should really take next to no resources while idling.
for content sites, stateless is fine. for web apps you need states of all different kinds. even the smallest detail is a state in an application.
endpoints themselves are stateless, but the web application is stateful. you only have to build the world once, and its much friendlier for end users.
I wasn't talking about frontend state, just the server. Frontend state is kind of irrelevant, tbh.