Node.Js: Mmm, Lovely !!!

First, let us apologize for this gastronomic title, but when you learn what we already know, you will agree that Node.js is delicious. Node.js appeared in 2009 and became a trendy open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a web browser. Ten years of development by the world programming community made Node.js a mighty, agile, and universal tool for web programming. It would be wise to use it to develop your projects.

Further, we'll describe the essential features of the Node.js, which makes it very attractive for use in web development.

Because of its opensource nature, Node.js has a wide range of the various add-ons, plug-ins, solutions for the situations which have been happening in 10 years of it's using. Node Package Manager or NPM provides the ability to share between developers. It already incorporates more than 50 000 bundles as a result of this, making sharing a pleased and easy process. So, it is a high probability that you can find ready-made solutions full of a lot of comments, tips for your project in a heartbeat.

For its job, Node.js uses the Google V8 engine. It is a high-speed engine to compile javascript into native machine code. It also used in Google Chrome. Better to say it was extracted from the Chrome browser and implemented in Node.js. Thanks to this feature, Node.js wins a lot of time and increase any frameworks speed. We had the opportunity to verify this in our projects and, moreover, received confirmation from Pay Pal also. They claimed the decrease by 35% time response as soon as they started using Node.js applications.

It is worth noting that Node.js is very convenient for the programs that need an event-based server, as well as non-blocking driven servers. It’s an ideal solution to realize various real-time applications like chats, games, etc. Considering that Node.js developer writes javascript both for server and client, it makes server/client data transfer much more fast and easy. Also, Meteor, a web app framework built on top of Node.js, operates with the same codebase on both client and the server sides.

Node.js has another beautiful feature. It can transсode media files on the fly, and you can do it while they are uploading. Node.js can work with Web Sockets so they can read/write streams in HTTP.

JavaScript probably became the universal language for web developers all over the world. However, hard would be to find a web developer, and it is much more challenging to find a web developer who has no clue about JavaScript. Choosing Node.js, you make your life easier.

Despite its open-source nature, Node.js is sponsored by the Joyent world-class cloud and hosting solutions provider. For the years of usage, the company provided hosting services to Twitter and LinkedIn. Linkedin became one of the first companies to use Node.js for its mobile application backend. Then Uber, eBay, Walmart, and Netflix, also adopted this technology for their mobile application backend.

The specificity of Node.js usage is that combining frontend and backend commands into a single unit allows creating applications in less time with high performance. To summarize, we would like to briefly highlight the following advantages that make Node.js the best choice: - improved efficiency and overall performance of developers; - the ease of sharing and reusing the code; - high speed and better performance; - fast and convenient knowledge sharing within a team; - a massive number of free tools.