Build Modern Apps Using Node.js
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment built upon Google Chrome’s V8 runtime, used to build fast, lightweight, scalable network applications. It’s utilized by giants such as Twitter, Intel, NASA, and Walmart in a variety of fields like e-commerce, billing systems, IoT, real-time collaboration tools and more.
With a broad range of powerful features, flawless design, time-saving performance and great efficiency, Node.js is always one step ahead. When coupled with a team of experienced and skilled developers, like those from Astec, Node.js can work wonders!
Advantages of Using Node.js
Microservices-Based Architecture
Node.js has a microservices-based architecture that simplifies the structure of a project, boosts its performance, and makes even the most complicated projects maintainable.
Tons of Features
Node.js comes with built-in RESTful APIs whose reusability is a great help when developing applications. Node.js can also be extended with an almost infinite number of modules.
Top Documentation
Node.js documentation provides detailed information about the use of its many features. Developers will never feel lost or confused.
Active Community
Node.js community is a very active and helpful group of developers, providing a lot of ready solutions and answers to commonly asked questions.
Hire Top Node.js Developers
Astec’s Node.js teams are ready to design, build, ship and scale innovative software solutions. We provide our top Node.js developers, programmers, engineers and coders to help companies scale their development teams.
Maciej
Senior Node.js Developer
Marcin
Senior Node.js Developer
Pawel
Senior Node.js Developer
Mateusz
Node.js Developer
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We spend over 5,000 hours each month designing and building enterprise-class software for our clients
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We’ve delivered over 100 successful projects to clients of all sizes across multiple industries
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Over 30 skilled software developers and designers on staff ensure the highest quality of services
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Being in business since 1993, we have decades of experience in delivering innovative software solutions
Working with Astec
Experience Led & Outcome Focused
Our decades-long experience in creating digital innovation across multiple industries enables us to help clients tackle strategic opportunities and solve real-world business challenges. We always keep a focus on customer experience and business outcomes in order to ensure each project’s success.
Agile Delivery Process
We deliver projects using the Scrum agile project management framework, which keeps you in the loop and enables teams to respond to change rapidly, efficiently, and effectively. Scrum enables cost-effective engagements and is designed to meet your goals, timeline and budget.
Experienced Java EE Developers
Every Astec Node developer had to go through a non-trivial hiring process and received training from our most skilled and experienced Node.js experts. This ensures that Astec’s Node.js development teams have the complete competencies required for Node.js software development.
DevOps-enabled Automation
Leveraging DevOps practices in project delivery enables us to save time and resources by automating tasks like code deployment and continuous testing. DevOps teams can perform frequent code changes, stage the builds for testing and push frequent software changes to the market.
Secure Software Development
To ensure the security of personally identifiable information, we build software by following Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) practices as well as the principles of Security by Design and Privacy by Design. This approach enables our clients to comply with the EU’s GDPR.
ISO Certified IT Services
Astec’s ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2017 certifications are evidence that we abide by international norms in information security and quality management. Following best practices during the software development lifecycle is a prerequisite for building enterprise-class software solutions.
Transparent Collaboration
We provide you with complete visibility into your project and open multiple lines of communication. Your involvement throughout the whole project and team staffing is expected. We frequently update clients on their project’s status and are available when they need us.
Client Satisfaction
Your satisfaction with our work is of utmost importance to us. We provide you with a dedicated account manager, project manager and a consistent delivery team. All clients are surveyed during and after project delivery, with results going directly to our Managing Director.
Why Clients Choose Astec for Node Development
When it comes to Node.js software development, there are plenty of reasons why companies choose Astec:
- Cross-functional team of 50+ IT specialists based in the European Union
- In-house experts in the fields of business analysis, user experience and UI design
- Transparency, openness and frequent communication with clients
- Fast and cost-effective delivery of Node.js software projects
- Scrum-based agile Node.js application development and project management
- Competitive rates for Node.js developers and architects
- Modern approach to project delivery using DevOps-enabled automation
- Manual and automated quality assurance testing before each release
Our Clients About Their Cooperation with Astec
Without any doubts we can recommend Astec as a partner that is combining high quality together with high efficiency and responsibility.
We plan to leverage their resources in multiple upcoming projects and extend our partnership on other technological stacks as well.
What You Can Build with Node.js
Video Streaming Apps
Coming with a Stream API, Node.js can be used to build great video streaming applications, since it efficiently handles big size video files, and provides the data in small chunks called streams which are sent to the client on the fly. This kind of approach greatly improves performance. Node.js has been used by some of the biggest video streaming companies, including Netflix which reported an impressive 70% improvement in loading times ever since they have switched to the framework. If they trusted Node.js, then so should you!
Real-Time Chat
Building a real-time chat app that sends and shows messages without refreshing the page is a piece of cake with Node.js! It’s all thanks to Socket.IO, a Node.js server that enables real-time bidirectional communication. It’s highly reliable as it allows establishing a connection even in the presence of load balancers, proxies, firewalls and antivirus software. Some other features include room support, auto-reconnection support, binary support, and a heartbeat mechanism. If you’re in need of a chat app, Node.js is the way to go.
Internet of Things (IoT)
Since Node.js is easy to integrate with IoT protocols, it is actively used in different IoT projects by many companies, from smaller ones like Asama Systems who used Node.js to create a micro-location system for tracking activity and movement of employees, to true giants like NASA. The latter utilizes Node.js to literally keep the lives of astronauts in space safe. Even if your project is not a matter of life or death, it’s still advisable to use a top notch solution like Node.js.
Real-Time Collaboration Tools
Trello is a project management list-making application used by some 50 million people all around the world. It uses a complicated event-driven technology which handles many open connections at a time. Its developers decided to use Node.js for its server side, mainly because of its high performance and amazing capabilities.
Complex Single-Page Applications
No matter what your single-page application looks like, and what’s it for, it can still benefit from using Node.js. Its asynchronous data flow and non-blocking I/O operations event loop make it possible to receive data without the need to refresh the page. Needless to say, Node.js has been used in a wide variety of apps among which LinkedIn is perhaps one that profited from it the most, resulting in two to the mind-numbing ten times faster performance as compared to the previous Ruby on Rails implementation from before the switch.
Microservices Architecture
Thanks to the microservices architecture of Node.js, it’s easy to create and maintain an application built of single, independent, and scalable units. A prizewinning Frappka app powered by Node.js is a great example of this. Developed for the convenience store chain Zabka, the app comes with a set of store management features for franchisees, like generation of detailed reports regarding given stores. Thanks to the use of Node.js, a powerful, efficient app has been created, which resulted in it being awarded not one, but two Mobile Trend Awards.
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Contact usHow Can Node.js Help My Business?
We have prepared answers to some of the most common questions asked about Node.js application development:
Is Node.js good for enterprise applications?
Enterprise applications are big and complex, and can therefore pose a serious development and maintenance challenge. However, Node.js comes with great features, making it perfect for enterprise app development, keeping things efficient and fast. Its in-built, reusable RESTful APIs as well as a broad range of modules, make it possible to develop flexible applications that use a lot of input-output operations and database querying. Node.js ensures Long Term Support for all its major releases, providing developers and clients with the reliability which is a must when basing a big business on one single technology. Written in JavaScript, Node.js can be used for both front- and back-end development, enabling the opportunity to build isomorphic applications. Such a unifying approach and lack of technological diversity allows for smaller teams and easy maintenance. All of the above makes Node.js a wise choice for developing enterprise applications.
Is Node.js a good choice for backend development?
Its single-threaded architecture makes for better performance by cutting memory usage, while also greatly speeding up the delegation of tasks such as database operations. With the benefit of asynchronous programming, Node.js allows executing events independently, making it possible to continue processing many requests at once. Such simultaneous behavior improves latency, responsiveness and performance. Another great profit that stems from asynchronicity is the use of Promises that offer an effective, ingenious alternative for the burdensome callbacks. Being written in JavaScript, Node.js reduces the learning curve and makes it possible to use JavaScript for the entire development process. Finally, a satisfactory ratio between developer effort and product performance is yet another reason to choose it for backend development.
Is Node.js the right choice for e-commerce?
Lately, more and more people have been choosing online stores over traditional ones, and this trend is only going to deepen. Luckily for us, Node.js is well suited for e-commerce apps as it comes with a humongous registry of thousands of easily available modules that can be found useful when developing an app. Such richness encourages developers to be more creative and deliver amazing solutions to meet clients‘ satisfaction. Thanks to the assistance of a variety of Node.js e-commerce platforms, a wide range of customer user interfaces as well as support for and integration with payment systems is readily available. Out-of-the-box solutions to common e-commerce development problems help developers to focus on other important aspects such as writing high quality code and delivering an app that meets customer expectations. Since whenever money is involved, security is of highest concern, it’s good to know that Node.js provides security mechanisms, like SQL Injection prevention, so that customers’ data and money always remain safe. Wrapping up, Node.js is a rich, flexible and safe choice for e-commerce.
Is Node.js good for microservices?
Every application starts small as an MVP (Minimum viable product) and then turns into a fully fledged project. Since it usually happens faster than expected, it’s more than likely that the project will quickly become complex, and balancing its performance while still adding top notch features will prove challenging. Apps built as monoliths are clunky and hard to maintain. Thankfully, Node.js was created with microservices in mind. Its microservices-based architecture ensures both vertical and horizontal scaling that boosts performance, I/O-bound tasks result in low resource footprint, and better structure makes new features easier to understand, design and implement. With Node.js, even the most complex products can be broken into microservices and become manageable, making the app reliable, stable, and a true pleasure to use.
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