Node.js is gaining in popularity and is rapidly becoming part of the accepted application development technology stack for the enterprise. Large organizations such as Walmart, Paypal, Uber, Groupon and Netflix are currently using it. Among the key reasons for this trend are:
- Productivity:
NPM, the Package Manager for Javascript offers more than 115,000 open source modules, enabling developers to more rapidly build new apps. Instead of reinventing the wheel every time, they simply reuse existing modules, which provides more time to innovate or improve on existing apps. When Paypal switched to Node.js, it reported a 2X productivity increase.Another great benefit of Node.js is that front-end and back-end developers are writing in the same Javascript language. The result is developers better understand how everything works together and more closely collaborate to quickly develop reliable apps.
- Performance:
Node.js is proving to be a reliable and high-performance solution relative to alternatives in certain use cases. Several enterprises with large scale Node.js implementations have shared their results publicly. For instance, on Black Friday 2013, Walmart had a bumper launch with 200 millions customers online and served 500 millions pages without a glitch.
Paypal reported a 35% or 200ms decrease in average response time for the same web page when switching to Node.js. (Read the full blog post: https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2013/11/22/node-js-at-paypal/)
Groupon claims page load times dropped by 50%. Those are impressive metrics, and certainly bode well for the use of Node.js for large-scale applications. To learn more about Groupon’s experience with Node.js, watch the full interview with Sri Viswanath and Sean McCullough here: https://www.joyent.com/developers/videos/node-summit-groupon-interview
- Widely Adopted Syntax:
Node.js syntax is based on JavaScript, one of the most popular and widely used programming languages in the world. Since JavaScript is used for client side web development regardless of the backend stack, it enjoys a status as the “Switzerland” of languages, accepted equally by both .Net or Java developers.AnyPresence provides a holistic enterprise MBaaS that leverages Node.js and related technology.
- Node.js backend server:
AnyPresence can generate a Node.js backend server that provides a variety of services such as data abstraction, integration, access control, and notifications. Developers have tremendous flexibility to author custom backend business logic using server-side JavaScript. Combining the versatility and efficiency of Node.js with the dynamic AnyPresence MBaaS architecture, provides a flexible, high-performance, and open framework for significantly accelerating enterprise app development. - Simplify App Administration
AnyPresence MBaaS also generates a corresponding web application in Angular.js that can be used to administer the Node.js backend server at run-time. This administrative app also provides developers with access to dynamically generated API documentation for all objects and methods in the backend server definition. - Automatically Deployed
The Node.js server can automatically be deployed and scaled automatically on cloud infrastructure provided by AnyPresence, and managed through the Designer console. The generated server code can also be downloaded as a standalone Node.js application and deployed to any PaaS. IaaS, or data center infrastructure that the developer prefers to use. In addition, AnyPresence supports multiple environments per app project, enabling developers to follow a hybrid approach that takes advantage of cloud-based deployment for quick development iteration, and a more closely managed on-premise deployment for the production instance.
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