Re:After a year of using Node.js in production
by silviogutierrez on Monday May 02, 2016 @07:00PM
(#11616437)
Same experience as the author. Tons of reinventing the wheel, and hundreds of dependencies.
The majority of established companies that say they use Node in production are doing so as a fancy proxy. All the "serious" stuff is done on backend services written in other languages.
Moreover, asynchrony is a concept far more advanced than most people think.
We will likely continue to leverage Node as a fancy proxy. Adding Typescript will only help. But it's likely that as Node grows into a mature platform, other platforms will continue to fill in the gaps that Node filled.
See for example Node constantly adding [foo]Sync versions of methods, while Python adds first class sync support.
The majority of established companies that say they use Node in production are doing so as a fancy proxy. All the "serious" stuff is done on backend services written in other languages.
Moreover, asynchrony is a concept far more advanced than most people think.
We will likely continue to leverage Node as a fancy proxy. Adding Typescript will only help. But it's likely that as Node grows into a mature platform, other platforms will continue to fill in the gaps that Node filled.
See for example Node constantly adding [foo]Sync versions of methods, while Python adds first class sync support.