It’s surprisingly good as a backend language, if you don’t really need OOP all that much. The perfect case is probably using it in microservices that only really need to do a bit of data manipulation and some database interfacing.
I’ve had pretty good experiences with it even situations with moderate data manipulation. There are some tricks you can use to engage different phases of the event loop to keep the data processing from blocking too much.
It’s still not as good as Java/C#/Go, of course, but it can help get some more performance out of Node.
Wait you said back end…
It’s surprisingly good as a backend language, if you don’t really need OOP all that much. The perfect case is probably using it in microservices that only really need to do a bit of data manipulation and some database interfacing.
I’ve had pretty good experiences with it even situations with moderate data manipulation. There are some tricks you can use to engage different phases of the event loop to keep the data processing from blocking too much.
It’s still not as good as Java/C#/Go, of course, but it can help get some more performance out of Node.
You are familiar with NodeJS, yes? 👍
It’s a really popular choice and has been for the few years.