
Justin Michela
Node.js Developer
Mexico
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Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform and server side runtime environment based on JavaScript that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. Node.js is fast, lightweight and efficient and designed to build scalable network applications.
Now, let us discuss some of the key features of Node.js.
      1.  API
            -    Node.js significantly allows developers to write real-time applications and also provides better scope for mobile application development in JavaScript.
            -  It is easier to find a library to create e.g. REST or GraphQL API
      2.  Developing streaming web applications
            -  Its built-in stream module helps to process huge amounts of data chunks sequentially.
            -  It refrains from temporary storing of cache data in application memory.
      3.  Real time web applications
            -  It handles lots of I/O operations which is great for building real-time web applications.
      4.  Microservices
            -  It helps in building and deploying microservices.
            -  Due to its lightweight nature, scalability of applications is easier.
      5.  Scalability
            -  Offers high performance and acts super fast for asynchronous side programming.
            -  Lets you execute multiple task at the same time
            -  You can integrate Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.
            -  Save time by using reusable, ready-to-run components of node modules..
Now that you are familiar with most of the well-known feature, let us look at some of benefits for why you should choose Node.js in your next project
      1.  Scalable systems
            -    Scale the application horizontally by deploying many instances of your project to the different servers.
            -    Scale your system vertically, by using a cluster built-in module that will fork the application process to all the CPU cores you have.
      2.  Open-source NPM repository
            -  60 thousand are easily available and ready to use for your solutions.
      3.  Single programming language
            -  Use only JavaScript to save time and resources.
      4.  Good for microservices
      5.  Non-blocking I/O paradigm
      6.  Reusable code
There are many companies like Netflix, LinkedIn, Paypal, Uber, eBay, NASA that use Node.js.






