We created a Node.js web app from scratch within 9 weeks that now serves 10.81 million visitors each month*. We used the latest and greatest incarnation of JavaScript – ECMAScript 2015, a.k.a. ES6 – for the backend and frontend alike. We spent late nights coding in gleeful frenzy, stepped into pitfalls, moaned about WTFs, scaled the dizzy heights of asynchronicity. This is our story.
Full article