Why we don't use node js to build large scale application, in my small career of Full Time Engineering till now I haven't seen a monolithic app completely running on node JS as whole. Tho I have seen usage of node js everywhere but it's used for doing small task such as getting price of a crypto from multiple exchanges and then aggregating it(if we talk about a FinTech crypto app). I'm curious to know why people prefer Python(FastAPI, Django) over node js,tho js has asynchronous capabilities, it's understandable that Java and Golang are faster but why Python monolith over JS?
Because Django and FastAPI ecosystem of frameworks and packages is much more consolidated, solid and stable than the Node.js ecosystem.
You won't run into interoperability or compatibility issues frequently. If you've already made up your mind to use languages that are not strong in their concurrency approaches, Python is just way simpler to work with than JS.
Django and FastAPI are also much more feature rich than anything Node.js offers (for eg: migrations manager, better designed ORM, stable module imports system, etc.)
Lastly, I recently found out that Python introduced coroutines and async-await much before JS. You can do async programming in Python too (in fact FastAPI is all about it.
The only con for Python is that Node.js is much more performant due to C++ and libuv. And that's why many people (including me) prefer it over Python.
PS: I have 5 years with JS and Node.js
Following up, finally someone cares about real software engineering :)
Exactly bro
Finally someone discussing real engineering. Great work man. I don't have much knowledge about this so I have no say, but I'm commenting to promote this
Python has a world class ecosystem for backend technology. Whereas NodeJs even being mainstream for almost a decade now, doesn't have anything close to it.
When you have to choose between a slow memory hog, might as well choose one that's easier to work with. So Python on the backend makes sense.
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