Is nodejs just a fad technology?

Question

We have seen many technologies come and go, sometimes even a few with moderate success. But nodejs is different, no. it is dependent only on js to do the servers job. I have tried it, it kind of simplified a thousand things but, is it here for the long run.

Answer 1

@Navardium - just sharing my personal opinion 😃😃😃... only time will tell - I do remember times when we thought Assembly, Pascal, C and Basic were more than enough for anything you might wanna do with a computer... Obviously we were all wrong 😉

Answer 2

JS is spreading widely, mostly in my opinion due to the community, these days you can do almost anything with it (except system programming), so I think it's not only gonna slowly replace PHP as backend but might also hit Java as multy-platform language thanks to technologies like Electron and Cordova 😃😃😃

Answer 3

I don't think it's just a fad technology considering the way people are porting to it. node js is here to stay and it might become the standard for backend programming

Answer 4

It's pretty stable and trending.
No interference with other programming languages.
Each one has it's own benefits.

@Nikolay Nachev It might not replace PHP, nor anything else; I personally don't view them as competitors.

Answer 5

@Nikolay Nachev I think that they lost the competition mainly because they were competing in a specific category and languages such as pascal and delphi didn't improve respectively as time went on; so they got underrated.

I'm not saying PHP or even JS libraries are here forever, in my view, they will hopefully be trending for a while; like it or not.
And that's mainly because they are both in active development, responding to solutions and issues. They're both popular and constantly updating/improving. (benchmarks will be backing my words: Latest Node.js and PHP comparing previous versions)😊