When using clusters in Node.js, it's important to understand how clustering works and whether or not a load balancer is necessary. Clustering allows you to create multiple server instances that share the same port, which can be beneficial for utilizing multi-core systems. However, this does not inherently provide any load balancing capabilities on its own.
When you use cluster
module in Node.js, it forks several child processes to handle incoming connections. Each fork listens on the same port and can receive requests for different parts of your application. Here's a basic example:
const cluster = require('cluster');
const http = require('http');
const numCPUs = require('os').cpus().length;