Why You Should Consider Node.js For Developing Your Web Applications?

By Author: Harold Vance
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Node.js is an open source platform for developing server side web applications. But when it comes to using it practically, developers often get confused on whether to use it or not. Because their biggest concern is that whether this technology is industry ready or not.

For all those developers out there, the answer is a big YES. Because this technology is enterprise ready and hence, easily gets started with. Starting from programming to delivery, it performs as a go-to technology. Not only this, but also it provides NPM – Node Package Manager which is the package manager for Javascript. This NPM has more than around 115 open source modules (still the number is growing) which can be used in your projects.

Using Node.js, you can
Develop web applications
Implement real time services
Develop browser games and real-time communication programs
Develop and operate eCommerce stores

You can also use it as a backend for your mobile applications

Just think, why would some big companies such as PayPal, Uber and Groupon use it? Unveil the reasons here:
It accelerates the overall ...
... productivity of your business
It is known that when PayPal started using it, these people reported a double productivity compared to the previous Java stack they were using. How is that possible? Yes, it is! The main jackpot is NPM. NPM has an incredible number of modules which can be instantly used without much a fuss and this saves a lot valuable time on the developer's’ end. The second reason is that Node.js apps are written in Javascript and thus, it’s easy for even the front-end developers to know what’s going on to make necessary amends. This way, the overall productivity of developers is obviously going to increase and eventually, the result, too, is going to be fantastic!

It offers an excellent performance
Walmart, one of the biggest retailers in the entire world, has also used Node.js for serving 500 million page views in a single day on Black Friday in the United States. Same happened to PayPal also. Using Node.js platform, they successfully launched their Black Friday offers and got an excellent response from the customers.

It helps you to keep your customers happy
According to a study by Kissmetrics, almost 40% of total website visitors, abandon the site due to much loading time, more than 3 seconds. Therefore, if Node.js is successful in increasing your productivity, the velocity is automatically going to grow. And as far as your online marketplace is concerned, you would be able to ship more products in less time and so, the customers would also be happy. So again a win-win situation!

Apart from this, the runtime environment of Node.js interprets Javascript, which is very easy and simple to understand and code. Due to this reason, even the developers find it easy going which keeps them happy and relaxed.