Top 5 Sites Built with Node.js

Node.js is an open source, cross platform JavaScript runtime environment so as to develop fast, scalable network applications. Developers mostly use node.js for creating server side applications. It is best known mean for JavaScript coder to build real time Web APIs.  Node is maintained by the developer community at large, backed by Joyent, a cloud services company.  

Node.js is really a powerful tool, that’s why so many companies are hiring on node.js development company to handle their initiatives. Some big brands also move their business to node.js and are taking advantage of fast and scalable applications. Here are some of the famous websites which are powered by Node.js.

Paypal: Paypal is a US based company who provide their operation a worldwide online payments system. It provides easiest and safer way to shop and pay online, not limited to but also to send and receive money. It is very popular online payment service in use today.

Paypal has moved their every product and every site within paypal to node. According to Paypal, Node.js powers our web applications and has allowed our teams to move much faster in bringing their designs to life. We have seen big scale gains, performance boosts and big developer productivity.

Linkedin: It is a business networking and blogging platform. It moved from rails to node.js to power their Mobile Server, which in turn powers the iPhone, Android, and Mobile Web products.

Linkedin has chosen node.js for following three reasons:

• It provides better performance than rails, Node.js being up to 20x faster than Rails for certain scenarios.
• Instead of 30, Node.js platform can work on only 3 servers.
• Same libraries can be used for both back-end and front-end

Groupon: Groupon is world’s best destination for finding discount coupons and other great deals on e-commerce platform. Groupon also uses node.js platform.

Wall Street Journal: It is a famous daily newspaper which provides online coverage of breaking news and current headlines from US and around the globe. It is specialized in providing business and financial news. It also uses node.js backend for their online version

According to owner of wall street journal: The simple truth is that “Node has reinvented the way we create websites”. Developers build critical functionality in days, not weeks.

Medium: Medium is a blogging platform where you can read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you. It was founded in 2012 by twitter’s co-founder, Evan Williams. It Is one of the best blogging platform like Tumblr and WordPress. It also uses n