Node.Js
Node.js is a cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment that can run on Windows, Linux, Unix, macOS, and more.
Node is well suited to real-time applications such as chats, streaming services, internet of things (IoT) offerings, or single-page applications.
When to use Node.Js?
Streaming Apps
Application streaming allows for downloading parts of the application on demand without overloading the server and the local computer.
Chat
The chat program has modest processing and computing needs despite its extensive data and traffic loads. It’s the perfect use case for Node.js because it works on a wide variety of devices simultaneously.
Data Streaming
Giants like Netflix welcomed Node.js.
Node.js has a definite edge on this as the processing files at a super-fast speed and feather-light encodes and uploads.
Single Page Apps
SPAs are web apps that load a single HTML page and dynamically update the page as the user interacts with it.
Node JS’s speed and scalability make it an ideal tool for building SPAs.
Colaborative Tools
Collaborative tools, like Trello or Google Docs, require real-time synchronization of data across users. Node.js, with its capability to handle numerous connections concurrently, is aptly suited for developing such applications
Microservices
Node JS is also great for building microservices, which are small, independent services that work together to communicate with each other through APIs (app Programming Interfaces).