Node.js
The default backend when the frontend is already JavaScript.
What we build with it
- APIs for React and mobile apps
- Realtime services and websockets
- Integrations and webhooks
- Internal tooling and scripts
Why we use it
One language across frontend and backend means shared types, shared validation, and any of our web developers can carry a feature end to end. The npm ecosystem has a client for practically every service you might integrate.
When we don't use it
CPU-heavy work isn't Node's home. Long computations block its event loop, so for that we reach for Go, .NET, or Python.
What we have written about Node.js
- .NET vs Node.js for a business backend: we measured both
We built one API in .NET 10 and Node.js 24. .NET served 1.6x to 4.2x more requests than 4 Node processes on 4 CPUs. Why that rarely decides it.
- Bun in production: where it is ready and where it is not
A plain look at what Bun's runtime, installer, bundler, and test runner handle today, and the specific corners where Node still deserves the job.
- Go, Node, or Bun for your backend
A scenario-based look at Go, Node.js, and Bun for backend work, covering team fluency, concurrency, deployment shape, and ecosystem depth.
Questions clients ask
Short answers, no sales language. If yours isn't here, ask an engineer directly.
Ask us anythingNode or Bun?
Node for production certainty and the full ecosystem, Bun where speed and startup time matter and the dependency set is proven to work on it. Bun runs most of npm now, but most is not all.
TypeScript on the backend too?
Always. Shared types between client and server remove a whole category of integration bugs before anything runs.
Got something to build?
Tell us what you need. An engineer replies, not a sales team.