Since its release in 2009, Node.js has seen a large adoption across all industries. It allows technical teams to build applications with only one language across the whole technical stack: JavaScript. As an agency, we often choose to create products for our clients with Node.js. Having one technology across the whole stack translates into easier recruitment when your company grows.
Node.js' approach allows us to write a server which can handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent users on relatively modest hardware. With Node.js, we don't have to worry about the multi-threading issues that plague non-event-driven systems. This ensures highly performant real-time web applications with high connectivity.
Node.js packages exist for almost any technology that it can interface with. There are over 250,000 modules on npm (node packager manager), many of them downloaded more than 100,000 times per day. This means that we don't need to waste time building support for other tools and can focus on business problems, while being confident that the modules are heavily used and tested. Node.js allows for rapid, effective development of complex applications.
There is little boilerplate in a Node.js server, so we can start working on features rapidly. The great performance of Node.js comes out-of-the-box rather than requiring a lot of tweaking. The ecosystem has had time to mature and there now are several frameworks that allow you to effectively build scalable, complex applications.
Principal Software Engineer at Netflix
Principal Software Engineer at Netflix
