[tehwebguy]

Yeah the CSS style selectors and methods are the same, I assumed he was referring to the fact that it's all JS.

When you are scraping it's great to be able to do a test run in the browser console and then just paste the code into your node script without any language porting.

It's not an argument that it's better or faster or anything than PHP, just that some find it easier to hack a scraper together in this way.