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General Discussion

Estevan Montoya
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Estevan Montoya
Courses Plus Student 23,989 Points

What large web applications are built with NodeJS/Javascript as a the full stack?

I have several ideas for SAAS apps I'd like to build, and I know JS primarily in regard to actual programming. Looking around for ways to build my SAAS apps, I find there are very few applications built primarily using the full stack JS model, compared to other tech stacks.

Why?

Is is because there are older stacks and full stack JS is still young? Is it because there are too many options? (MEAN, MERN, MeteorJS, Express, Sails, React, Angular, Vue, etc.) Does JS not work well for monolithic applications?

I have grown to really like JS compared to PHP and Ruby. I don't want to get in too deep if JS is not the way to go to build things that have the potential to need to be scaled larger.

Dialog please, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks!

1 Answer

Youtube is full of crappy videos about thislanguage vs thatlanguage, but I think this one is actually interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UruBwvFoSg