tech/webdev magazine

October 9, 2015

Node.js and ES6 Instead of Java – A War Story

Friday, October 09, 2015 Teklinks

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.

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