Node.js

239 engineers on Hacker News describe using Node.js first-hand: 46 endorse it, 28 regret it, 15 are mixed.

59%trust
239first-hand users
186in production
endorse 46mixed 15regret 28uses, no opinion

“This was rewrite of Node.js/Typescript computation module, and we chose Zig over Rust due to better support for f128.”

regret · production · MrResearcher · 2026-03-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“One of my favorite techniques is using SIGUSR1 to start the node debugger.”

endorse · production · jauntywundrkind · 2026-03-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Node runs so slow - I have a ton of Node-based lambdas in prod... I'm quite surprised how bad it is”

regret · production · torginus · 2025-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Results: local dev tasks ~30–40% faster, CI jobs ~3–6 minutes faster.”

endorse · production · sdotson · 2025-08-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Having an environment that is batteries-included, debugging-friendly, logged, connected, scheduler'd, web UI'd, CLI'd, etc”

endorse · production · DecoPerson · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We migrated our api server from flask Python to node-express-typescript.”

endorse · production · nojvek · 2023-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I used Node for a small project. Never again.”

regret · personal · lelanthran · 2023-07-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“stack also being 100% JS/TS made sense for us.”

endorse · production · navaneethpk · 2022-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“while Node is really nice, Django and Go get predictable outcomes with less time spend on tooling, patching and updates.”

mixed · production · indymike · 2022-06-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“kept API as we migrated backed to go (via a terrible course through nodejs)”

regret · production · dayjah · 2022-06-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“it is absolutely not hard to run a node app in prod”

endorse · production · freedomben · 2021-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the Node.js ecosystem is in absolute shambles”

regret · production · scottc · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“As someone who ran a company for 5+ years on a Node.js stack, never again.”

regret · production · 5 yr · tlackemann · 2021-07-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I had got a Node project in my previous gig and I hated it every minute.”

regret · production · FlyingSnake · 2021-03-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a bit annoying to need node, a custom node package, and a pile of node modules”

regret · production · etxm · 2021-01-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We dabbled with NodeJS + Express which no one in the team liked to work on.”

regret · personal · blntechie · 2020-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“NodeJS has such a huge breadth of packages that its _very_ hard to actually pick something good. But there is almost always an alternative”

mixed · production · seer · 2020-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I remember using node or ruby and how many bugs i would catch later in prod after refactoring.”

regret · production · devmunchies · 2020-06-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Upgrading NodeJS indeed gives us massive performance boosts, but apply with caution.”

endorse · production · eliseumds · 2019-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I LOVE nodejs' closeness to the metal, I didn't like going back in time 10-15 years.”

mixed · production · specialist · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The first Node.js service I wrote and maintained, processed thousands of requests in parallel and was successfully in production”

endorse · production · jononor · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've encounted different issues with NodeJS services in the past (and still do) both with CPU bottleneck and Heap allocations.”

regret · production · vmarchaud · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The last few startups I worked at we had a bug in production at least once a week, sometimes every day.”

regret · production · alexmingoia · 2019-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Node.js is infamously known to use small modules, it however gives you battle tested code run by thousand in production.”

mixed · production · z3t4 · 2019-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I feel your pain, I managed a node app in production for 2+ years. That made me realize PHP is not that bad.”

regret · production · 2 yr · ooooak · 2019-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm not actually a fan of JavaScript or even Node, ... the JavaScript ecosystem is just so damn practical.”

mixed · production · moksly · 2019-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched from a small Node Hapi monolith to Go at the end of 2017.”

regret · production · pier25 · 2019-06-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I find I have to ignore basically all of the standard frameworks and transpiration pipelines and just write old school PHP-like code in Node.”

endorse · production · erikpukinskis · 2018-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The problem with JS (Node and browser) is that the standard library is pretty much useless.”

regret · production · pier25 · 2018-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Even with Nodejs I have code running that is more than 6 years old happily doing useful stuff.”

endorse · production · 6 yr · scandox · 2018-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The amount of times some NodeJS or Python thing changed from underneath me and I needed to rework an entire codepath”

regret · production · anon1253 · 2018-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“our little department is actually one of the few places which uses Node for serious backend application in the entire country”

endorse · production · eksemplar · 2018-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we migrated one of our Java backends to TypeScript/Node, and made the code 40% lighter”

endorse · production · jeremychone · 2018-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The reason we're doing more and more JS, and using node, is because of how fast it produces stuff that works.”

endorse · production · sidstling · 2018-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“all my past freelancing projects have been using NodeJS. ... it's has definitely proved very useful.”

endorse · production · vjankov · 2017-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“But personally I like working with Node.”

endorse · personal · throwaway2016a · 2017-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“our servers were leaking memory and started crashing almost every day... we had to setup cron to restart our servers every single day at 04:00... Never use experimental features.”

regret · production · istotex · 2017-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have also found a knee in the efficiency curve for Node”

endorse · production · throwanem · 2017-01-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“for the past 6 years or so (since 0.8) I've been using Node pretty heavily... and really haven't missed it at all.”

endorse · production · 6 yr · tracker1 · 2016-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“After maybe one year of learning, walking through the swamps, I finally saw the light. The most revolutionary I think is the module system in NodeJS”

endorse · personal · 1 yr · z3t4 · 2016-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we deprecated then Node.js unofficially in our team because we did not like it at all.”

regret · production · cagataygurturk · 2016-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“our enterprise/analytics dashboard is written in Node; we've been fine with 2 developers on that team for 3 years.”

mixed · production · 3 yr · Eridrus · 2016-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“these modern javascript tools have solved a lot of problems we had.”

endorse · production · mehwoot · 2016-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched our backend from Python to Node almost 2 years ago now and it was a great decision for us.”

endorse · production · 2 yr · Chris911 · 2016-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using ES6 functionality like "yield" in my backend node.js code and am loving it.”

endorse · production · bcheung · 2015-07-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Having used Node.js recently for a high volume service my feeling is it is best for lots of network communication.. but not long running or CPU/disk intensive operations.”

mixed · production · mattkrea · 2015-07-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“After a few years in production it seems to me that Node's best position is right between the browser and the backend.”

endorse · production · 3 yr · mattkrea · 2015-06-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm torn about these choices, I've tried and liked them, but am a bit out of my element as primarily a python/c developer.”

endorse · personal · mixmastamyk · 2015-06-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I used Node recently for a project. Never again. It's just not a good language, for many reasons.”

regret · personal · api · 2015-02-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use Node.JS to run https://Clara.io. Clara.io isn't at all a simple website.”

endorse · production · bhouston · 2014-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I use node.js in production so I'm not knocking it outright but you quickly understand the plights”

mixed · production · invisible · 2014-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I found NodeJS + NPM very productive.”

endorse · personal · CyberFonic · 2014-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using node tooling even in VS web projects for 3-4 years now”

endorse · production · 3 yr · tracker1 · 2014-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I use MongoDB when developing a common app for NodeJS because NodeJS simply works very well with MongoDB”

endorse · production · nielskrijger · 2014-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We at Qbix choose Node because being web devs we already have to deal with Javascript.”

endorse · production · EGreg · 2014-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we run that code in Node.js as a separate worker process where we don't care about things like IO latency. It works great.”

endorse · production · dpe82 · 2014-06-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“node.js has the right balance of features to give us the ability to rapidly develop solutions”

endorse · production · tdondich · 2014-05-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I chose javascript (node.js specifically) due mostly to performance with IO (huge in GIS)”

endorse · production · morganherlocker · 2013-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've just been using the Q promise library and it works fine in NodeJS. The real problem is the core NodeJS libraries aren't promise compliant.”

mixed · personal · astrodust · 2013-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Been using NodeJS for quite some time, although I like it, I still have trouble looking for good documentation”

mixed · personal · jmgtan · 2013-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Node honestly is very performant overall given the time in which it takes a developer to code, test and deploy”

endorse · production · davismwfl · 2013-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“on the server I'm not in the callback hell I was having with node.”

regret · personal · Tarang · 2013-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“seeing as node is what powers most of our jobs... Bottom line is node has a massive flaw, and it should be fixed”

regret · production · tjholowaychuk · 2013-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I feel like someone is holding my hand, while with Node I felt like I was holding my breath the whole time.”

regret · production · dham · 2013-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I will say that MEAN certainly compared very well to both type of apps once in production.”

endorse · production · jaegerpicker · 2013-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we run a seever in production with 2M requests per day on node and we manage errors pretty well”

endorse · production · matthieupiguet · 2013-08-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“But... I really kinda hated the callback spaghetti, and no matter what library I tried”

regret · personal · aktau · 2013-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It's been great at http://geekli.st and we run a full node stack.”

endorse · production · rekatz · 2013-05-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“it's a good fit for one-off import scripts and backend systems”

endorse · production · tracker1 · 2013-04-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use node+express for everything at MileWise.”

endorse · production · nmeyer · 2012-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've lately preferred working with Node.js, and Ruby before that.”

endorse · personal · flexd · 2012-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I still wrote several projects using it and you know what? I don't regret it”

endorse · personal · b3tta · 2012-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I wanted to try node and have been very impressed. I use railway.js to serve up the iOS API”

endorse · production · imothee · 2012-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we ended up using node to handle file uploads, validations, image processing, S3 storage and video encoding... in less than a week we had our app in production”

endorse · production · mickeyben · 2012-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using NodeJS in production for a few years, and I'd agree that is probably not the best way to write an application with many layers of business logic.”

mixed · production · 3 yr · cliftonk · 2012-09-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I use Node in production. ... node process rarely lasts longer than 2 hours before it crashes.”

mixed · production · babuskov · 2012-08-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Wish we had read this last November when we started! We're using Pusher for the connections instead of Node.js. Working on switching now.”

regret · production · wilfra · 2012-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“staying on the shoulders of giants like node.js, twitter bootstrap speed things up allot.”

endorse · production · zubairov · 2012-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I don't see Node being mature enough (yet) to solely support an end-to-end large scale Web property. But, for serving up API content... it is blazing fast”

mixed · production · blantonl · 2012-05-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I find writing MapReduce jobs (in JavaScript no less) to be unbelievably clean and easy when your stack is Riak + Node.”

endorse · personal · Animus7 · 2011-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been dabbling with it again recently and found it to be maturer and much more stable. I've even been using it on Windows”

endorse · personal · krmmalik · 2011-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I think the main thing missing with Node is best practices. We use jslint with node. And we run tests in parallel”

mixed · production · jwatte · 2011-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I was surprised that the eventEmitter callbacks are not executed asynchronously. I assumed each one was run on the next tick.”

mixed · personal · Androsynth · 2011-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the Node prototype I made performed badly and crashed in spectacular ways under high loads.”

regret · personal · bobfunk · 2011-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Node's insistence on reserving the "fs" module name & removal of exports.paths has been a slight issue”

regret · personal · olegp · 2011-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My personal philosophy with Node.js is to use it for small, standalone network servers that complement the rest of my stack”

endorse · personal · simonw · 2010-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've used it on a few mid sized personal projects and have to say I generally regret the decision.”

regret · personal · jimmyjazz14 · 2010-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We did have to cut features when rewriting our software (after node.js changed all APIs) using TDD.”

regret · production · felixge · 2010-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we run around 8 I think and we plan to introduce more as node.js does not have threads or processes”

endorse · production · amix · 2010-02-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched over from Apollo on node to async-graphql on Rust.”

neutral · production · dminik · 2026-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I transpile for prod, but use --strip-types when running in dev”

neutral · personal · moogly · 2026-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we've been raw dogging MySQL and node.js at work for over a year”

neutral · production · 1 yr · kykat · 2026-03-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Also we use node which it Little horse doesn't seem to support.”

neutral · production · dminor · 2025-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Practically all the CPU time ends up spent in your nodejs application server.”

neutral · production · josephg · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a basic, scroll-bug-free, 650 LOC node.js app that basically circumvents this issue completely”

neutral · personal · vmitro · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We instrument Python, Node/TS, and Java to record deep context into a circular buffer.”

neutral · production · morethananai · 2025-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We do use workers, but with hono so it's easy to deploy it on render with node.”

neutral · production · saxenaabhi · 2025-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It was a simple Node.js + PostgreSQL server running on a fire-walled on-premise machine. We let it run untouched for just over two years.”

neutral · production · 2 yr · PaulShin · 2025-06-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have this setup and integrated for Node/Bun”

neutral · personal · benpacker · 2025-06-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we moved off of wkhtmltopdf to a nodejs service which received static html and rendered it to pdf”

neutral · production · dmkolobov · 2025-05-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Back to Node we go.”

neutral · production · sebmellen · 2025-01-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use Testcontainers (https://testcontainers.com/) in our node.js / vitest / kysely stack.”

neutral · production · theogravity · 2024-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We generally try to stay in line with the supported versions of the technologies we use: Postgres, NodeJS, Redis, etc.”

neutral · production · mattlong · 2024-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we use a node library that speaks the HTML Canvas API and can generate PDFs.”

neutral · production · adrianh · 2024-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've also done similar systems in other languages, especially Node.js, Python, and Rust, but they haven't been as productive”

neutral · production · blixt · 2024-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“migrate a large node repository to ESM”

neutral · production · britches11 · 2024-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We run Next.js on our own server as we use node-specific APIs in various backend-y places of Next”

neutral · production · theogravity · 2024-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“this is my experience coming from Java, Node, and Python”

neutral · production · faizshah · 2024-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It only took me a couple of months to realized what Ruby on Rails offers & the vibrant ecosystem it has.”

neutral · personal · BilalBudhani · 2024-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Musl causes a more regular pain of node add-ons needing to be specially compiled”

neutral · production · jauntywundrkind · 2023-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“JavaScript (both Node and browser, sometimes React), I'm the only one on the team”

neutral · production · mbork_pl · 2023-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It's always a bit odd coming from npm/node into something like Deno”

neutral · personal · gorbypark · 2023-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm a big ts and nodejs user”

neutral · production · twosdai · 2023-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we moved to Nuxt server side rendered on Node (Heroku)”

neutral · production · drewrbaker · 2023-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My chosen stack is React (DaisyUI, deployed with cloudflare) + Node”

neutral · personal · lightning19 · 2023-03-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I started a large Node project that a teammate moved to TS”

neutral · production · hot_gril · 2023-02-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“To learn more about Node.js, I decided to build the website for the screencast myself, rather than using something like WordPress.”

neutral · personal · 10 yr · jdlshore · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a set of services which were written in Java and NodeJS”

neutral · production · nicholasjarnold · 2022-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched our main service, which is a nodejs monolith, and did not get any cost improvement”

neutral · production · forty · 2022-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“eventually learned to just use the tools I knew (react, node, postgres)”

neutral · personal · rozenmd · 2022-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Our stack is (per country) 3 nodejs services, PostgreSQL, redis and some frontend services.”

neutral · production · hpeinar · 2022-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“When I did my last startup we switched from a Python API to Node for this reason.”

neutral · production · onion2k · 2022-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I once had to fix something in prod during a demo... manually change a line in a bundled and minimised Nodejs app!”

neutral · production · Karupan · 2022-09-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“here is one of our service files for systemd to manage a Node.js backend instance”

neutral · production · e1g · 2022-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we migrated all erlang, golang and nodejs code to edge workers on cloudflare and simply did not need to run containers anymore”

neutral · production · jFriedensreich · 2022-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I get to run two versions of node on one Linux and pretend I didn't just sweep all these serious issues”

neutral · personal · deckard1 · 2022-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“having built on things like Python+FastAPI, Node+Express/Hapi/Apollo, and Rust+Actix”

neutral · production · Tsarbomb · 2022-04-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“After that, I wrote something with a Typescript/Node backend. IDK if it was better or worse than .NET.”

neutral · production · ss108 · 2021-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we switched our nodejs workload to graviton (c6g from c5)”

neutral · production · forty · 2021-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We have a mixture of python, java, go, protobuf, and node.”

neutral · production · jvolkman · 2021-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“our apps are for the most part platform agnostic apps on Node.”

neutral · production · hn_throwaway_99 · 2021-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We have quite a few Lambda functions (written in Node) that I believe pre-date even my tenure at the company”

neutral · production · 6 yr · 015a · 2021-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“having worked with Node for almost 10 years now, with a number of bundlers, most in Javascript but some in other languages”

neutral · production · 10 yr · junon · 2021-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“At my workplace, we have a node.js service that solves Vehicle Routing Problems”

neutral · production · yashap · 2021-09-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we switched to using native SQLite via a bridge to a Node process”

neutral · production · jitl · 2021-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We went there from node and we did try a lot of other backend stacks”

neutral · production · cygned · 2021-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched from Node.js to Go in the beginning of 2020”

neutral · production · majodev · 2021-03-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Fullstack Angular + Node -> Backend Node with shift to TypeScript near the end”

neutral · production · bradlys · 2021-02-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we also worked with python, nodejs, some Go.”

neutral · production · throw20210211 · 2021-02-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“other languages and frameworks I've used in prod (Golang, Dotnet, Dotnet Core, Node, Ts-Node, Rails, PHP, etc)”

neutral · production · horsawlarway · 2021-01-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“In fact, I contributed to a Node.js framework for implementing CQRS and Event Sourcing.”

neutral · personal · alex-lawrence · 2020-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The solution we used was to make our UI in HTML/JS/Angular and have it talk to a Lisp backend with Node.js.”

neutral · production · mimixco · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“this setup might be lot easier to deal with than Appollo and node.js”

neutral · personal · jillesvangurp · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been hacking a small Node app in my dev environment for the past few weeks.”

neutral · personal · dcolkitt · 2020-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a couple of nodejs apps”

neutral · personal · kube-system · 2020-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a.o nginx and nodejs have no recent versions available; versions that we either need for features”

neutral · production · holstvoogd · 2020-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Our product is actually comprised of multiple NodeJS servers that are spawned as child processes in one master Node procees”

neutral · production · lemax · 2020-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Having spent the last several years using TS on Node in production”

neutral · production · eyelidlessness · 2020-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“some other tasks needed to use node and puppeter(a Chrome) wrapper - it was crashing a lot”

neutral · production · simion314 · 2020-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The services that actually display stuff on the screen (Node.js) run as their own container with their own processes”

neutral · production · michelledepeil · 2020-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Groupon still used it even after they ditched Ruby for node.js”

neutral · production · alasdair_ · 2020-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“it seemed to be a combination of Node + Consul DNS”

neutral · production · clarkdave · 2020-02-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using TiddlyWiki in the node.js-based server mode.”

neutral · personal · brazzy · 2019-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Go or Node (both of which I have used in production in the last month, and wouldn't take over Scala”

neutral · production · ccthr · 2019-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“which we use in our NodeJS codebase.”

neutral · production · migueloller · 2019-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“running Node code on each violation to filter and format the violation JSON”

neutral · production · dylburger · 2019-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we migrated from NodeJS / Angular to Haskell / Elm and couldn't be happier.”

neutral · production · seddona · 2019-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We did the same with our open source project. We ditched Clojure and Clojurescript for NodeJS and JavaScript”

neutral · production · zubairq · 2019-06-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched over from our old NodeJS backend to a new Go backend recently”

neutral · production · dmarby · 2019-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“For Node we use node-fetch which mimics the fetch API using the native HTTP module in the background”

neutral · production · pier25 · 2019-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've written our own blue-green deployment scripts for Spring Boot, Node.js/React/Vue, and Python.”

neutral · production · karmakaze · 2018-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I haven't had a single performance issue with a bunch of different Rails, Flask, Node, Phoenix and Jekyll apps”

neutral · production · nickjj · 2018-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Most of the codebase is in Ruby/Rails and NodeJS.”

neutral · production · sinstein · 2018-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using this exact structure too, via Nuxt: Node/Express + Vue on the front end”

neutral · personal · newsbinator · 2018-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Matter is a web app, written in NodeJS.”

neutral · production · keremkazan · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I used to manually compile things like Node.js and ripgrep from source to get up-to-date versions”

neutral · personal · Zarel · 2018-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Yeah, we use tsc for node.”

neutral · production · dvlsg · 2018-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“At the moment we are using the Node.js runtime with Typescript.”

neutral · production · Tehnix · 2018-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“In our case we are using Node.JS and all SQL libraries are very very slow.”

neutral · production · ex3ndr · 2018-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've used the Node.js containers in production and investigated the other languages, but never deployed them.”

neutral · production · ajuhasz · 2018-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we run the nodejs version using nodemon so that it reloads whenever the webpack watch mode rebuilds”

neutral · production · skrebbel · 2018-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“most of which use Golang, some Python and Node and Java.”

neutral · production · Zimbleton · 2018-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Just checked memory use on some services we run on Go, Node, and Java.”

neutral · production · base698 · 2018-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“somehow at Node 9.0 it's still needed.”

neutral · production · thermodynthrway · 2018-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've got two nodejs implementations of the pinning service API you can self-deploy, and then we run a Hashbase instance at hashbase.io”

neutral · production · pfraze · 2018-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“more recently implemented in Node.js.”

neutral · personal · lioeters · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“some of these run in Linux, php, nodes, python and so on.”

neutral · production · eksemplar · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm writing Node Lambda's.”

neutral · personal · Vinnl · 2017-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've actually been using this to take a break from Node and start learning Django.”

neutral · personal · joecasson · 2017-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Generated contracts are isomorphic and work well from Node.js and a browser while being simply packed with NPM.”

neutral · personal · buybackoff · 2017-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We run an entirely node stack so Lerna enables this in the first place.”

neutral · production · nwienert · 2017-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm 100% node/react/etc”

neutral · personal · MentallyRetired · 2017-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“All our web projects are node, typescript, and the front end stuff the client wants us to use (though we default to angular).”

neutral · production · ix-hispana · 2017-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I could have done that in Node (we did for a long time), but I decided that with the latest set of changes we'd bring this component in line”

neutral · production · tschellenbach · 2017-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been happily using it since generators were available under a flag with node 0.11”

neutral · personal · 4 yr · TheAceOfHearts · 2017-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched a large Nodejs project from TFS to GitLab and it's been night-and-day on our productivity.”

neutral · production · 0xfeba · 2017-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“breaking apart the app into micro services which are a combination of node js, golang, and Python/flask apps”

neutral · production · nstart · 2017-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“pipe updates to a java/node app which then would write updates via the web socket interface”

neutral · production · datasage · 2017-04-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“to measure the performance gains from multiple Node workers and the linked-list messaging queue”

neutral · production · tron1k · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'd rather not use a non-LTS version in production since I don't want to have to keep track of changes.”

neutral · production · wolfgang42 · 2016-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm eagerly awaiting native async/await in NodeJS (scheduled for version 8 AFAIK).”

neutral · production · wolfgang42 · 2016-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“our node.js adapter uses leveldown, so any *down backend can be plugged in.”

neutral · production · daleharvey · 2016-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I proxy with nginx for IP rate limiting and node.js for failed password attempts rate limiting.”

neutral · production · hardcopy · 2016-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“When we switched to Clojure (from nodejs)”

neutral · production · cygned · 2016-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we started with Rails, displacing a Node.js implementation that was poorly designed and messily implemented”

neutral · production · halostatue · 2016-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We initially had a small Node.js server, just to experiment with, but I discovered that it had no error handling at all.”

neutral · personal · fusiongyro · 2016-09-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've run through PHP, Rails, Node, Python (Django) and lately Go.”

neutral · production · stcredzero · 2016-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've run through PHP, Rails, Node, Python (Django) and lately Go.”

neutral · production · conorh · 2016-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We run a good-sized app API using Typescript with Node.js.”

neutral · production · mAritz · 2015-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Then we run Python (with virtualenv or Buildout) or Node (with npm)”

neutral · production · Scarblac · 2015-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It helped that the storage and query approach had good impedance match with NodeJS.”

neutral · production · sriku · 2015-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“instead of extending some existing node.js modules that existed in the community”

neutral · production · davismwfl · 2015-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“experiencing Django and Node was an eye opener.”

neutral · personal · muraiki · 2015-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Heroku for a Node apps and was sad that deploying Go apps required a custom buildpack.”

neutral · personal · chrisfosterelli · 2015-07-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Visual Studio 2013 + Node Tools + Web Essentials to do all my Web and Node.js projects.”

neutral · personal · WorldWideWayne · 2015-07-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“devs install Node deps on the staging server, forget to tell ops, service crashes when deployed in prod”

neutral · production · Eridrus · 2015-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Ruby, PHP, NodeJS, Apache...it's all there.”

neutral · production · bluedino · 2015-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have been using it for Node.js development for the past few months”

neutral · personal · 0.25 yr · olalonde · 2015-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we run it on node and setup a simple API that mirrors the vendor's API”

neutral · production · bikamonki · 2015-03-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“node.js doesn't have v1.0 release yet, but I still use it... using an unblessed release in production is acceptable.”

neutral · production · ecaron · 2014-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“deploy, replacing a Node.js rig.. for no reason other than we want Lua everywhere and no more javascript”

neutral · production · fit2rule · 2014-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Open sourcing more of the node.js code/systems I have written in the past year”

neutral · production · 1 yr · davismwfl · 2014-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“All those different templates get written into just one XSL file automatically with the help of node.js' gulp.”

neutral · production · donum · 2014-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using node.js & some Sinatra lately.”

neutral · personal · briantakita · 2014-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use a variety of other technologies in our stack (Node, Backbone, etc.)”

neutral · production · smk · 2014-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Currently, we use Node and may be doing long-term embedded installs of it”

neutral · production · angersock · 2014-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I used this (dokku on DigitalOcean as described) in production for several months for NodeJS”

neutral · production · 0.5 yr · wxm · 2013-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've worked on everything from Spring projects to NodeJS projects”

neutral · personal · 2 yr · blakehaswell · 2013-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“wrote a Shoutcast replacement in Node.js that the station has been running in production for the past 18 months”

neutral · production · 1.5 yr · ewrcode · 2013-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“For the latest project at work I've been using Yeoman with Grunt, Bower and NPM for the Node part.”

neutral · production · winkerVSbecks · 2013-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have several Node applications in production at my company.”

neutral · production · dham · 2013-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“which I'm currently using in production for the startup I work for”

neutral · production · NathanKP · 2013-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been experimenting with node.js for a side project and its pretty easy to setup a project entirely in CS.”

neutral · personal · sehrope · 2013-08-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we use node.js heavily, and I would like create npm modules”

neutral · production · mqzaidi · 2013-02-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“One is for node.js and uses node's Buffer methods to do the fast byte to number conversions.”

neutral · production · creationix · 2012-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use a very similar set up in a large Node.js app I'm working on.”

neutral · production · jpallen · 2012-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm dabbling in Python and Node.js to see if I might want to move more of the backend services away from PHP”

neutral · personal · geerlingguy · 2012-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“For Javascript or HTML/CSS related courses we use either Node.js with jsdom or Node.js with phantomjs”

neutral · production · rubymaverick · 2012-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It's composed of many small applications, each deployed as a WAR file since the non-Node.js part of the site is on the JVM.”

neutral · production · joshhart · 2012-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Bundler: Our node.exe based - for all compilation and minifiying of less, css, js assets.”

neutral · production · 1 yr · mythz · 2012-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've been running node.js since the 0.2 days and we've solved interesting scaling problems.”

neutral · production · pilif · 2012-08-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we run a pretty serious production Node.js app.”

neutral · production · DavidChouinard · 2012-02-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“There isn't really any clean, low-level websocket implementations for node that worked anymore”

neutral · production · wavephorm · 2011-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“especially in Node.js where watch->multi->exec callback stacks can be interrupted by other events”

neutral · production · fritzy · 2011-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm glad they're happy with the rewrite, but honestly, this makes me feel a bit nervous about updating my Node app”

neutral · production · kellishaver · 2011-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've migrated some key parts out to HTTP services written in Scala, Java, or node.js.”

neutral · production · jordibunster · 2011-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Hosted on nodeJS hiding behind nginx.”

neutral · personal · gcr · 2010-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I had to compile v8 and node to link against and scons wasn't playing nice w/ the build environment.”

neutral · personal · jbr · 2010-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“They're built for lucid, but run fine on maverick, and like everything else in that PPA, are used in production”

neutral · production · jdub · 2010-08-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?