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Why do Developers Love Node.js & what’s their main issue with it? Survey Results.

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Fast development, great performanace & the easiness of Node.js makes it a favorite. According to our survey, Node.js is a great option for developers who like to get their apps into production as fast as possible. It’s also loved because it’s easy to learn and has an amazing ecosystem with ready-made modules we can use. Why use Node.js? To understand why developers love & use Node.js, let me just show you a sample of the responses we got: Node.js is very performant while allowing me to be very productive. Lightweight development in the enterprise, plus the 400k npm packages. Front-end, back-end, and tester have the same language to work with. I can develop and be productive all across the stack without having to juggle different syntax. It’s all JavaScript, and it’s fast to prototype. The same language on client and server; js is conducive to functional programming; Typescript plays well with node; non-blocking io. Speed, familiarity, tooling. Lovely, like a breath of fresh air...

The Good and the Bad of Node.js Web App Development

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Being the most popular programming language, JavaScript is also one of the most universal software development technologies. Traditionally used as a web frontend development tool, it has also become a major  cross-platform mobile development  tool as a basic technology for a large number of platforms, such as Apache Cordova/PhoneGap, React Native, NativeScript, Appcelerator Titanium. But the areas of application for JavaScript do not end here. Lately, there has been a lot of buzz around the use of JavaScript for server-side programming. One of the tools that indicated this shift in web development was Node.js. What is Node.js? Node.js  is actually not a framework or a library, but a runtime environment, based on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. The technology was first  introduced  back in 2009 by Ryan Dahl at the annual European JSConf and was immediately recognized as “ the most exciting single piece of software in the current JavaScript universe ”. As an open-s...

5 JavaScript Alternatives for Front End Development

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In the web-based world, a website of an organization is the first impression and its first interaction with users.  Front-end development  of a web page becomes crucial in this context and it has been modernized the web development process more efficient nowadays. You might observe some websites and wonder, “How did these frontend developers make the website so interactive?” The simple answer is JavaScript. JavaScript is the most popular language of web-end development. JavaScript is currently being used by more than 95% of the websites as the client-side scripting language. However, that doesn’t mean the language is without any downsides. Its constant mix of libraries and frameworks demands a significant amount of time to master. It requires more code and it has a greater chance of getting repetitive, tangled, and buggy. This initiated a search for alternatives to JavaScript. While most companies prefer  JavaScript for front-end development , some companies hire develope...

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