Difference between response.send and response.write in node js

Question

I have written a small API which uses the Node js \"restify\" framework. This API receives a request (actually anything after \"/\") and then send that request to another se

Answer 1

res.send() is part of Express.js instead of pure Node.js.

Just an side observation. My app sometimes send back a very large Json object ( HighChart object that contains over 100k points). With res.send() sometimes it hangs and choke up the server, whereas res.write() and res.end() handle it just fine.

I also noticed a memory spike when res.send() is invoked.