alayek

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   by alayek 9y ago

   You should try. I come from a traditional Java shop, and a year ago wouldn't have thought of doing anything serious with Node JS. Today, I do front-end React stuff as well as back-end servers with Node JS. I have been happy with it so
2. 32.▲
   by alayek 9y ago

   You've hit the bull's eye! Yes, and you're also not supposed to do much computation in Node JS code. Some addition, subtraction is fine. But Array iteration, JSON encoding-decoding and similar CPU bound tasks could block the
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   by alayek 9y ago

   Other than their front-end build process, Node is also used in their user-facing servers. Basically, when your Netflix app makes a HTTP request to fetch any data from its backend servers, the request first hits a Node JS server. Something l
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   by alayek 9y ago

   Node is single threaded, in the sense that your code runs in a single thread. Your code assigns microtasks, to be executed later. Basically, if you write in Node JS, there's no concept of a thread. The thread API is not visible or acce
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   Web-App Over Slow Internet Connection(tech-blog.flipkart.net)

   2 points by alayek 11y ago|0 comments