With Node.js and JavaScript, you can build truly powerful web and mobile applications. Regardless of the industry, this lightweight and cross-platform solution is perfect for building products that stand out as being incredibly fast and efficient.
What is Node.js?
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Contrary to what many people think, Node.js is a runtime for JavaScript, not a programming language itself. It allows the JavaScript code to run not only in browsers but also on servers. It is great for building web apps that are fast and scalable. It’s also worth mentioning that although Node.js supports JavaScript natively, using Node.js you can write code in various languages, such as TypeScript, CoffeeScript, EcmaScript, and others.
The majority of the websites use JS
Currently, JavaScript is the only reasonable choice when it comes to the front end. To a greater or lesser extent, most of the websites use JS. Apart from that, it has reached servers in the form of services or desktop apps taking advantage of Node.js runtime.
Why you should consider Node.js
Open-source
It’s open-source (under the MIT license) so there are no royalty fees for using it.
Fast and scalable
It’s fast and highly scalable due to its lightweight I/O model.
A variety of apps
It allows building any kind of apps: web-apps, APIs, desktop apps.
Cross-platform
It’s cross-platform – you can deploy Node.js app on any operating system.
Open-source packages
It offers thousands of free open source packages, tools, and frameworks.
A thriving community
The fastest growing and most active community of developers.
A smaller team
It allows using the same technology on the back end and front end, so your development team can be smaller and more agile.
A well-known technology
It grants access to a large pool of developers – in 2020, it was the most popular technology, used by 51,4% of developers (Stack Overflow).
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With Node.js both the front end and back end can be coded with JavaScript. Providing the same programming language for the whole project lowers the risk and means that many libraries can be shared, which simply saves time.
Asynchronous communication
All Node.js APIs are asynchronous, which means that any call made to the Node.js server doesn’t block it until the response for the call is ready. With Node.js the response is delivered with the use of events that are emitted when data is ready to get returned. This approach allows greater flexibility and better use of computing power and memory, both by the server application and client application.
Versatility
With so many areas of operation of this runtime environment, everything related to it is gaining in popularity and developing rapidly. Node.js works very well on most operating systems.
Clean code
TypeScript is an excellent extension of the JavaScript language, with support for types. It makes the code cleaner and we can learn about potential errors much earlier.
Fast development with ready modules
Node.js comes with an NPM (Node Package Manager) – a big and constantly growing library of ready-made modules, libraries, and tools. They can be used to streamline and shorten the development process in a significant way.
Lightweight
Node.js allows a low footprint on the app server at hand so that it allocates resources when needed instead of allocating a large number of resources in advance. While a server waits for a response from a database, it continues to perform other operations, and only when the database responds, does the server allocate resources to process the response.
Cross-platform
Node.js applications can be hosted on any operating system, so you can have the same code-base for your application, no matter what operating system it needs to run on.
Benefits of Node.js
With Node.js you can build cross-platform applications that are fast and efficient.
Speed
Node.js runs on V8 JavaScript Engine, which is also used for the Google Chrome browser. This high-performance engine reinforces runtime speed. Thus, even multiple operations taking place simultaneously are performed smoother, faster, and saving significant resources.
Scalability
Node.js apps are typically characterized by higher scalability than other popular frameworks thanks to a non-blocking I/O and event-driven model. The technology is a perfect choice for data-intensive, networking, and real-time collaboration applications.
Efficiency
Node.js provides apps with high efficiency. One of the reasons is that it bridges the gap between front-end and back-end developers. For a person working with JavaScript, learning this technology is much easier than competing ones. Node.js works very well on most operating systems.
Where to use Node.js
Real-time applications
Chats, communicators, WebSocket based apps
Data streaming applications
Video, audio, and data streaming
JSON APIs
Based on different Node.js frameworks, e.g. Nest.js, Feathers.js, Express.js
Cross-platform desktop apps
With Electron.js you can build the app with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
IoT systems
A framework that can handle real-time applications and heavy data flow.
Microservices based apps
Convert a large structure into smaller, independent pieces, namely microservices.
Single-page applications
With React.js, Angular.js, or Vue.js
They use Node.js
Being one of the most popular technologies, many well-known and global companies take advantage of Node.js extraordinary features. These are among others:
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