Restful web application with Node.js?

Question

I came from java and I played around with node.js. Seems to be very fast and short to develop some apps. But is it good enough for a real cloud application? I used spring with spring mvc, security, data and so on.. But are the some modules like spring in Node.js? What would you suggest?

Answer 1

You've really got two questions here:

1. Is node good enough for a real cloud application?
2. Are there modules like spring in node.js

For the first one, Node is being used in production by some very large companies (Walmart, for example), and the general consensus in 2014 is that using an event driven webserver (primarily node and nginx, though there are others) is the best way to serve the highest of high demand applications. Yes, node is good enough, once you've learned how to use it.

For the second one, I don't know spring, but there are frameworks out there. Most of my work thus far has been primarily console based, not web based, so I haven't searched anything out, but look around.