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When to use Node.js

by goloroden on 1/16/19, 12:45 PM with 1 comments

  • by tluyben2 on 1/16/19, 11:01 PM

    The uniform language is what I like, the rest is not very different on a lot of other platforms. Uniform language I also have with clojure/script and dotnet with Bridge. I created quite a large application with Node and JS (not my choice) recently and I immediately miss types (I usually use dotnet core) (solved by using Typescript but that was not an option) and the tooling I have for dotnet. Also node seems more fragile; this can be maybe because of all the ‘admins’ that set up their system wrongly, but I also sell server monitoring saas and we monitor many php, dotnet (core) and node servers and node servers by far have the most downtime. And my own experience is also that it is brittle.