Difference between JavaFX node and UI component?

Question

What is the difference between JavaFX node and a UI component?

I understand that the both concepts are similar but I am sure that there is a reason why we call a JavaFX Node a node and not a Component.

Answer 1

Shortly, node is general element is scene tree. Component as generaly understand is composition of several nodes (in JavaFX) enriched with behavior of some kind. In JavaFX we do not have components. We rather called them controls.