Do you know that Netflix and PayPal, two giants in two entirely different industries with a user base of 250 plus million, have found a safe home with Node.js? According to them, employing Node.js has reduced the build time and enhanced its user customization. With many notable advancements, these companies had with Node.js; they are incessantly adding new data access layers to it.

Setting a new standard for every enterprise application, Node.js has been living up to the expectations of every developer in town. They claim that the potential of Node.js as a programming language is so strong that it could dethrone Java in no time.  

Know about Node.js

The definition of Node.js as supplied by its official documentation is as follows −

“Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast and scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. “

Source: https://nodejs.org/en/

Right from its initial release in 2019, all these years have marked the growth of Node.js with a new business conglomerate disclosing its successful operational efficiency to the world. NASA, LinkedIn, Walmart and Twitter are a few in its long list. Moving along with the stream many more companies had rewritten their codes to Node.js to enhance their efficiency and productivity within the developed applications. According to the survey conducted by Node.js in 2018, three amongst four Node.js users employ it for backend or full-stack development.

What makes Node.js so special?

Choosing a language over others comes with certain impeccable reasons and those about Node.js is fundamentally its ability to scale according to the need. Its novel way of incorporating tools and the ability to advance further as per the enterprises’ requirements also set it apart from its competitors in the field.

Performance

As said earlier, Node.js is built upon Chrome's JavaScript runtime in C++ for rapidly operating composite operating systems. The constant update within the Node.js optimizes the performance and the security within the language thereby supporting the modern JavaScript features. The single-threaded event loop model architecture helps Node.js to handle multiple concurrent clients proficiently. This framework allows the language to perform outstandingly coordinating thousands of co-existing client base.

Scalability

Scalability in Node.js is not something that came at the eleventh hour. It has been already incorporated into the language during its run time. Through this feature, it also enables load balancing and cluster module aiding over multiple CPU cores.

Blend of Node.js and Microservices Pattern

Addressing the common problem of frequent up-gradation and review within the business applications the microservices pattern comes into play. This solves the complexity that arises within the applications that make the deployment and team coordination a tough task. Many companies have used the combination of Microservices and Node.js to deliver better performance and proficient deployment.

Developing Cross-Functional Teams

Node.js being a JavaScript, helps to put together a cross-functional team where every member is accountable for the development of an application. Node.js bridge the gap between the skilled developers- both from back and front-end. To sum up, it helps the full-stack developers who know the JavaScript to use it for both client-side and server-side focused applications.

Long Term Support

Each major release of the programming language would be maintained dynamically for one and a half years from the date it enters the Long-Term Support, after which the transition to the maintenance mode last another 12 months. In this period, there will be no new features included in the current version which is a big step towards complex business applications.

Looking forward

With the never-ending transformation that is happening in the IT sector each minute, catching up with the trend is a major challenge faced by many industries. They are constantly trying out new paths to route their way through these recent developments and Node.js can be considered as one such technological development. 

• The vanguard in innovation has a well-planned way to pull in new businesses paving its way through massive conglomerates.
• Node.js is fundamentally developed with Google’s V8 JavaScript making it one of the main reasons for its credibility.
•  Whatever the case, the case of Node.js always stands tall among its rivals which makes it a go-to language for many developers.

The era of Node.js would continue for another decade. Way forward among the programming languages, it provides a unique platform where the developers could streamline their effort in creating proficient and scalable enterprise applications.