I spent a year trying to make Javascript and more specifically Node work for our team. Unfortunately during that time we spent more hours chasing docs, coming up with standards, arguing about libraries and debugging trivial code more than anything.<\/p>\n
Would I recommend it for large-scale products? Absolutely not. Do people do that anyway? Of course they do. I tried to.<\/p>\n
I would however recommend Javascript for front-end development such as Angular or React (like you have another choice).<\/p>\n
I would also recommend Node for simple back-end servers mainly used for websockets or API relay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now if only somebody wrote a similar post about Docker …<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
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