Node.js is a server side platform built on Google Chrome’s JavaScript Engine (V8 Engine), for easily building fast and scalable network applications. Node JS is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side and networking applications.

Node JS applications are written in JavaScript, and can be run within the Node JS runtime on OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. Node.js also provides a rich library of various JavaScript modules, which simplifies the development of web applications using Node.js to a great extent.

Node JS uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. Due to its asynchronous, non-blocking, programming model for lightning-fast speeds and enabling the use of JavaScript on the server-side, both client and server run using the same language.

Until recently, highly concurrent programs were limited to hard-core network programmers. Now any web developer with JavaScript skills can write the same kinds of highly-scalable programs quickly and easily. Node.js changes the notion of how a server should work. Its goal is to enable a programmer to build highly-scalable applications and write code that handles tens, or even hundreds or thousands of simultaneous connections on just one server.

Advantages of Node JS

Interaction between client and server – Doesn’t require flipping back and forth between two or more technologies.

Platform control – Specifically as compared to a LAMP stack, with Node JS you have lot more power/control over what is happening on the server side, how a client connection is handled, how requests are handled, etc. You can do all of the same stuff with Apache/PHP. But it requires a lot more work, plugins, etc.

Code re-use – You potentially use any piece of code on both sides of the stack.

Other advantages – With respect to speed, size, scalability, etc.

At Piccosoft, we specialize in application development using PHP. Off late we realized the significance of Node JS, which can offer an enhanced performance for applications, in terms of speed and scalability. We now incorporate Node JS in most of my applications.

We are a web application development company, with a strong and experienced team of application developers, who specialize in various web technologies, including Node JS. We at Piccosoft, make sure that my Application can earn maximum returns for my clients.

Being a Freelance web application developer in PHP, I realized the significance of use of Node JS to make it more powerful in terms of speed and scalability.

I specialize in various web technologies including Node JS.  In the web applications I develop, I always make sure that it is developed in accordance with the highest standards, to earn maximum returns for my clients.