API Development
The interfaces that let your systems talk to each other, and let partners build on top of what you have.
A sensible default for APIs and integrations — the work of connecting systems together.
Node.js runs JavaScript on the server, which means one language across the whole stack and a very large library ecosystem. It is particularly well suited to work that spends its time waiting — calling other services, handling many concurrent connections, streaming data.
It is a poor fit for heavy CPU-bound computation, where the single-threaded model becomes the constraint and another runtime will serve you better.
The interfaces that let your systems talk to each other, and let partners build on top of what you have.
Applications that run in the browser, handle real workloads and hold up when several departments depend on them at once.
Software shaped around the way your business already works, instead of a packaged product you have to reorganise around.
Building a software product means building a business system around it too — tenancy, billing, onboarding and support tooling.
People look for this subject using a lot of different wording. These all describe the same thing, and this is the page for all of them.
For the API and integration layer, very much so. For heavy numerical processing or long CPU-bound jobs, we would put that part somewhere else.
It helps with hiring and with sharing validation logic between client and server. It is a convenience rather than a decisive argument.
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Describe it in your own words and we will tell you what it would take, or whether something simpler would do the job.