Is Node.js development right for my app?

1. Real-time applications: Collaborative apps (Trello, Google Docs), live-chat, instant-messaging, and online gaming are all examples of RTAs that benefit from a Node.js architecture.
a) Chat: Chat is the most typical real-time, multi-user application.. The chat application is really the sweet-spot example for Node.js: it’s a lightweight, high traffic, data-intensive (but low processing/computation) application that runs across distributed devices.
b) Application monitoring dashboard: Node-with-web-sockets fits perfectly in tracking website visitors and visualizing their interactions in real-time. Real -time stats can be easily tracked with Node applications.

2. Single page applications: SPAs are web apps that load a single HTML page and dynamically update that page as the user interacts with the app. Much of the work happens on the client side, in JavaScript. SPA are awesome evolution in web development, but they come with some problems when it comes to rendering. This can negatively affect your SEO performance for instance. Server-side rendering in a Node.js environment is a popular option to solve this.

3. Scalability: Node.js won't ever get bigger than you need it to be. The beauty of it is that it's minimalist enough to customize depending on the use case. Performance-wise, that's key. Node's modularity allows you to create small apps without having to deal with a bloated, overkill ecosystem. You choose the tools you need for the job and then scale as needed.

4. Queued inputs: Are you receiving high amount of data to your database? Then your database may become a bottleneck. Node.js is the solution for your problem.

Node.js

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript code server-side. Historically, JavaScript was used primarily for client-side scripting, in which scripts written in JavaScript are embedded in a webpage's HTML and run client-side by a JavaScript engine in the user's web browser. Node.js lets developers use JavaScript for server-side scripting—running scripts server-side to produce dynamic web page content before the page is sent to the user's web browser. Consequently, Node.js represents a "JavaScript everywhere" paradigm, unifying web application development around a single programming language, rather than different languages for server side and client side scripts. More at Wikipedia

Original author(s): Ryan Dahl

Developer(s): Joyent

Initial release: May 27, 2009

Written in: C, C++, JavaScript

Operating system: Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, SmartOS, FreeBSD, IBM AIX

Type: Run-time environment

License: MIT

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