My love and hate relationship with Node.js

post, Mar 30, 2020 on Mitja Felicijan's blog

Previous project I was working on was being coded in @@ -68,21 +68,18 @@ application. And you don't get this in marketing material for E etc. They never tell you this. Making Node.js scale on infrastructure or in codebase is really more of an art than a science. And just like with the whole JavaScript ecosystem:

  • impossible to master,
  • half of your time you work on your tooling,
  • just accept transpilers that convert one code into another (holly smokes),
  • error handling is a joke,
  • standards? What standards?

But on the other hand. As I did, you will also learn to love it. Learn to use it -quickly and do impossible things in crazy limited time.

I hate to admit it. But I love Node.js. Dammit, I love it :)

2023 Update: I hate Node.js!