Should you develop your product’s backend with Node?
Built on Google’s V8 engine, Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment that supports tens of thousands of concurrent connections on a single thread by using a non-blocking event-driven I/O. With Node, your developers use Javascript for front-end and backend development, which eliminates development bottlenecks because any developer on your team can complete any task in a sprint. When Node is used with a NoSQL database like MongoDB, data stored in JSON format can simply be exposed as a REST API for your web and mobile clients to consume. Node.js shines when you build real-time applications with chat features like Whatsapp or collaboration features like Google Docs. Single page applications, AJAX-intensive web apps and streaming applications all gain speed and performance improvements when Node is used for the backend. Node isn’t a good choice for CPU intensive operations like data sorting and video processing, so you should look at other technologies better suited for CPU intensive ...