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Funny how back in 2015 node.js was seen as some exciting unstable thing. In 2022 it's honestly the most practical choice for me - I'd like to play with other s
by LAC-Tech 5y ago
Funny how back in 2015 node.js was seen as some exciting unstable thing.
In 2022 it's honestly the most practical choice for me - I'd like to play with other stuff but if I had to a put a backend together quickly I'd undoubtedly reach for node.
(Though I realise I'm missing the forest for the trees here - your boring technology is not necessarily mine).
- aradaelli 5y agoNode js is definitely great to kickstart a new project. However I believe it becomes a trap when you start to pull in dependencies. I recently resurrected a node.js project, just 3 years old, expecting it to be working as the day as I archived it. Well no. A package broke because of the newer version of Node.js. Therefore I performed a full upgrade of all packages and then _my code_ broke because some other package did not maintain backwards compatibility. So I reverted everything back and manually upgraded only the necessary packages to make everything working again. Both NPM and Github tell me how many unsecured packages I am using but I don't care, it's a project I am using for myself. But if it was for work I would have to spend time fixing a lot of broken things. I think Node.js is not a boring. It is young and still growing.