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Why choose Node.js? - Gunjan Modi

To build a full fledged web/mobile application, development team requires developers who know programming language to generate APIs and other server specific tasks. Generally, the server side programming language is being chosen among Python, Java, C#, PHP. But team must require developers with knowledge of JavaScript, as JavaScript runtime on every browser in the world.  It’s difficult to hire developers with knowledge of multiple technologies. Some developers are GURUs in JavaScript and rest knows little bit of JavaScript. In a nutshell, every developer knows JavaScript. Wouldn’t it be dreamy if JavaScript running on the server, as well as in the browser? Node.js converted this dream in reality! Node.js is a server-side solution for JavaScript, and in particular, for receiving and responding to HTTP requests.

Wikipedia says, Node.js provides an event-driven architecture and a non-blocking I/O API designed to optimize an application's throughput and scalability for real-time web applications.

Why use Node.js in this programming language war among its tough competitors Java, C#, Python, Ruby? These are the cool features of Node.js,

1. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Some layman may have questioned, so what great deal in this? V8 compiles JavaScript to native machine code before executing it instead of more traditional techniques such as interpreting bytecode or compiling the whole program to machine code and executing it from a file system. Result is super fast performance. Much faster than Python, Ruby, Perl.

2. Node.js is has non-blocking, asynchronous architecture. When you try to do something which is taking too long, Python, Java and others will wait until the task completes. But Node.js will do other things simultaneously.  This is the strongest reason to select Node.js.

3. Node.js simplifies the development process. Use of same programming language at server and client side, reduces overheads in the development process. Application data can be easily communicated in JSON format. Even can be store in database with the help of MongoDB.

4. Node.js best delivers when it comes real time programming

Developing data intensive web app, chat server, data streaming server, ad server are suitable use cases of using Node.js

5. As Django to Python, Ruby on Rails to Ruby, what about Node.js?

Don’t worry. Node.js has fast, minimalist and versatile web framework Express.js. Express.js gives fundamental web application features like URL routing, middleware, template processing, error handling and database integration.  Now a day, MEAN stack is becoming cutting edge technology which made replacement over traditional LAMP stack.