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Node.js can't be beaten for me, it is fast and robust and an absolute pleasure to work with
May 28, 2021

Node.js can't be beaten for me, it is fast and robust and an absolute pleasure to work with

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Node.js

Node.js is my absolute favorite tech stack to work with, I learnt it at a time when I was burnt out and bored with .NET after having been in the Microsoft world for most of my career. Even with .NET Core around, I still prefer Node.js to anything else. Node is robust and fast, it delivers on everything it promises, it is the back bone of many services at my organization and used across all departments. When you get something like Node.js for free and it is such a pleasure to work with, all you can say is that it's contribution to the organization is priceless.
  • Robust
  • Fast
  • Modern
  • Easy to learn
  • Allows using JS or TypeScript everywhere
  • Supported and maintained actively by the open source community
  • Pleasurable to work with
  • Reliable
  • Simple to learn
  • Simple to setup
  • Package management can sometimes be a pain
  • Keeping up with upgrading packages to address vulnerabilities
  • Richest source of packages - there is something for most things you will need to do
  • Speed
  • Robustness
  • Zero cost
  • Ease of use
  • Node.js allows us to get more systems up and running quicker
  • Zero cost
  • Robustness
In my opinion, Node.js is just so much cooler than anything .NET has ever done, even now. It far simpler to get started, you don't need to remember some obtuse class hierarchy which tends to make .NET good so much more complicated than it should need to be. Node.js is faster and more robust, even though .NET Core claims to be faster or just as fast - even if that were true, if you are hosting it on IIS - then any advantage you had is gone. Node.js continues to improve on and already perfectly formed base. I wish I could just work on Node to be honest.

Do you think Node.js delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Node.js's feature set?

Yes

Did Node.js live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Node.js go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Node.js again?

Yes

.NET, ASP.NET, Asana, Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server)
If you need a fast, robust and reliable server side framework that allows you to write JS on the backend and therefore have your project in one language - Node.js is a stand out choice. It can easily handle heavy traffic on very little resources (CPU and memory usage is very efficient). I can't recommend it enough, it is such a pleasure to work with - I feel it gave me back my career. I was so bored with the banality of .NET, I had also come to dislike it's overly convoluted and complicated class structure. Node.js was the fresh start I needed, it can be as simple or as complicated as you like - but even at it's most complicated it can still beat the pants off .NET core any day.