Why Node.js beats Java and .Net for Web, mobile, and IoT apps
Speed, scalability, productivity, and developer politics all played a role in AnyPresence’s selection of Node.js for its enterprise development platform A couple of years ago, the development team at AnyPresence was tasked with implementing a back-end server API generator for a large customer that wasn’t comfortable using Ruby on Rails in production and preferred an option in the Java ecosystem. To meet this requirement, the AnyPresence platform team invested a significant amount of time implementing a Java version of the generator in the Play framework. However, it was taking too long to implement features to match what was already available in the Rails version, so the team eventually started to look at alternative frameworks. That search ultimately led us to adopt Node.js and Sails.js, which is an MVC framework for Node.js. This article attempts to explain the reasoning behind these choices. roblem No. 1: Java, .Net, or Node.js? As an enterprise dev platform for Web,...