Answering the Most Asked Question: Why Choose Node.js?

Do you have an innovative idea that’s going to turn your web app into the next big thing? That’s great – but remember that software development is a process that has to be well-thought-out, and the most critical decision of what backend environment you are going to choose has to be made at the early beginning.

So, this is what we are going to focus on in our blog today. As a technical consultant for over 15+ years, I have helped business owners to choose the right technology platform for their business. Whenever we have business discussions with our clients, one of the most important questions that everyone needs to get an answer is- Why choose Node.js for their business? So, I am going to tell you how exactly Node.js is beneficial for any business.

Before we begin, we need to understand that every programming language has its own benefits for development, but choosing Node.js over other programming languages has some additional benefits. Before we dive into the powerful features of Node.js, let’s have a look at why Node.js has become standard for enterprise-level organization.

Some renowned companies have chosen Node.js as their backend technology for creating applications. Some of them are:

• LinkedIn
• Amazon
• PayPal
• Medium
• Walmart
• Netflix

You might be amazed by looking at this renowned app list. Read more to know why they chose Node.js.

There are many advanced tools available for tedious application development that just make Node.js the standard technology as well as the foremost preference. So, let’s get started!

Here are major features that make Node.js the best choice for app development:

Performance and Accessibility: Node.js is an event-driven server-side environment based on a Chrome V8 engine that helps to create fast and reliable backend applications. It is a single-threaded metachronous structure that enhances the accessibility and performance of your application. It works like this:

All the functions (or callbacks) are executed asynchronously by multiple threads running in the background. Credit goes to the Node.js runtime that handles this. Hence, Node.js is a non-blocking environment that just enhances the performance of the web-app. This is known as the ‘Single-Threaded Event Loop’ methodology of Node.js.

Scalability with Microservices: Hundreds of large-scale organizations have adopted and benefited from the scalability offered by Node.js as it is the most popular framework loved by entrepreneurs. The reason being the Microservices architecture followed by Node.js.

With this architecture, applications can be independently developed, handled, operated, and tested, which saves you of the infrastructure risks. Also, it reduces the time and cost of development because you need only to consider new services introduced or updated. Not only that, but it also allows code-reusability between the client-side and server-side.

Data Buffering: Node.js uses the Transfer Control Protocol streams; hence the developers have to deal with binary data. Node.js makes use of the Buffer class to handle long streams of these binary data. The language uses Buffers when the incoming data is more than the outgoing data, and the stream processors can not digest all the data.

Asynchronous request handling and event-driven modules, based on Node.js, never fail to buffer any data. It only chunks the output. For enterprise developers, this feature of Node.js turns out to be an important one for developing a smooth and easy functioning app.

Availability of different modules: All the JavaScript files are reusable by Node.js application as it can implement the conventional modules. When you install Node.js, it automatically installs the programs of NPM (Node JavaScript Programs) that places all the modules before any severe issue occurs. These NPM packages are by default installed to C:\Users\ [Username]\AppData\Roaming\npm.

It is an open-source platform where you can find a shared repository of dynamic tools & more than 580000 modules & is still growing. This way, you get reliability and an active community at your doorstep.

Handling Data Streams: Like strings and arrays, streams are the collection of data and the primary concepts of Node.js for managing the available information. The main benefit it provides is that it takes less time compared to other data processing methods for processing data. Node.js developers can even transform the data carried in the stream before it reaches the destination.

Node.js streams help simplify the I/O tasks tremendously. There are four types of streams used by node.js- Writable, Readable, Duplex, and Transform, along with the Pipe method to handle data. The most significant advantage of node js using streams is reducing memory consumption drastically. It enables apps dealing with a massive amount of data to function faster that too with minimal memory usage.

Wrapping Up

For developing applications with better and faster accessibility, Node.js is a must-have choice for building enterprise-level applications. At Ksolves, Node.js is our core area of expertise. If you are looking for an innovative and qualified team of Node.js developers to build a next-generation enterprise application, then get in touch with us today. Choosing Ksolves and hiring Node.js developers ensures you have access to skillful experts and adroit specialists. We assure you that you will never be disappointed about hiring our Node.js development services.