Ask HN: Is their any large scale, real life Node.js app?

techvibe 15 years ago |

Sorry for the spelling mistake. I meant there and not their. This can happen, when English is your third language (grown up in Afghanistan, living in Germany) and you don't use English every day.

Why it is not possible to edit this post/question?

Thanks also for your replies.

streeter 15 years ago |

Learnboost (http://learnboost.com/) is using Node.js and is an active contributor to node projects on Github (https://github.com/learnboost).

EwanToo 15 years ago |

Plurk's comet functionality is the main one people point to

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088699

Joyent also maintain a list on Github of companies using it

https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Projects,-Applications,-...

pewpew 15 years ago | |

plurk switched back to java http://amix.dk/blog/post/19577

Khao 15 years ago | | |

Plurk used Node for 8 months in production environment and they seemed overall pleased with the project. They also did their project on Node 0.1.33 and we are now at v. 0.4.8 so I'm sure while this post serves as a fair warning that it might not be perfect for any project, Node is still very good.

nathanhammond 15 years ago | | |

At Typewire we too started on Node and moved to Java (using Netty for NIO). I really truly love JS and wanted it to work, but the throughput on Node for open connections just wasn't where we needed it to be.

The best use case I can come up with is using node, socket.io, and knockout to quickly build a shared-state application (so long as there is a way to reconcile communication latency, which is why a declarative library like knockout is a good thing). I'm trying to come up with a good problem to solve with that tech stack for this year's Node Knockout.

In short, I agree, Node lends itself nicely to a particular subset of problems, but a lot of the places where it is presumed to shine (speed/real-time/code reuse) others are moving in to follow its lead.

robinwarren 15 years ago |

I don't know if it's deployed yet but Jason Roberts of techzing (Great Podcast btw, here: http://techzinglive.com/ ) has been talking about a node.js rewrite of the backend for car hire service Uber (http://www.uber.com/)

Would that that count?

rkalla 15 years ago | |

(ASIDE) Really appreciate the heads up on techzing -- been looking for a podcast to add to Java Posse and Mixergy for over a year and never been happy with Podcast discovery in iTunes. Just added TechZ and can't stop hitting "GET" reading through all the past episodes.

robinwarren 15 years ago | | |

no problem, they're great and deserve the publicity. I'm a possee fan too. A couple other podcasts I rate highly are:

drunk and retired (sadly too infrequent nowadays http://drunkandretired.com/thepodcast/)

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (originally heard of this via Joe from the posse I think http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html)

thirtysixred 15 years ago |

Etsy is using node.js for aggregating stats: https://github.com/etsy/statsd

matan_a 15 years ago |

I know that Voxer (http://www.voxer.com) uses it and are happy with it:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/01/the_rise_and_rise_of...

pkulak 15 years ago |

Showyou has to pull in about half a million videos a day from various social networks and that's done with Node. It makes a good web Crawler.

grep 15 years ago |

http://bouncely.com uses Node.js for processing Amazon SES bounce emails.

tlb 15 years ago |

Anybots uses it to control all its robots.

pokoleo 15 years ago |

I heard somewhere that Facebook uses Node for recording stats. (Can't dig up the story though :S)

DrJ 15 years ago | |

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/05/nodejs-at-facebook...

I remember there was HN item about this when it came out, but tl;dr of the article that I got was, some people want to use Node.js but performance + stability is what FaceBook wants, and something that isn't prevalent in Node (yet?)

I wait for the day when NodeJS breaks backward compatability

crcastle 15 years ago | | |

node.js breaks backward compatibility every time it increments the x in its 0.x.y version number.

crcastle 15 years ago | |

gilt.com uses (or used) node.js for real-time web analytics. Hummingbird was the first project that got me really excited about node.js.

http://projects.nuttnet.net/hummingbird/

peterhunt 15 years ago | |

lies

smoove 15 years ago |

http://transloadit.com/ uses node.js

dumbphone 15 years ago |

Anyone know which framework the sites mentioned by the commenters use? Geddy? Express?

techwraith 15 years ago | |

Express has a much bigger following and is still being maintained. Storify and Learnboost both use it.

frr149 15 years ago |

Since we're at it, is there any good book on node.js?

focusaurus 15 years ago | |

This links to an in-progress book and many online tutorials.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/04/6-free-e-books-on-n...

nphase 15 years ago |

Node is in production at SimpleGeo, IIRC.

serichsen 15 years ago |

"Their"? Whose?

dterra 15 years ago |

www.streamerapp.com is a large scale, real life node.js app now on Private beta.

dannyr 15 years ago |

Storify.com

rcavezza 15 years ago |

proxlet.com - it handles millions of twitter requests each day.

iancanderson 15 years ago |

Ask HN: What are the correct usages of their, there, and they're?

rkalla 15 years ago | |

(OT, but trying to be helpful for non-native speakers)

their - possessive/ownership. "Their dog bit me!" "Their car is a mess!"

there - place/position. "Put the toys over there."

they're - contraction of "they are". "They are my best friends!" == "They're my best friends!"

ignifero 15 years ago |

I have another question: Is there something that we can only do with Node.js?

Raphael 15 years ago | |

It would be foolhardy to answer your question, as someone would inevitably respond with another language that can do it.

I will say that NodeJS has inspired me to get off my ass and code a basic CRUD site, which could get me started and lead to more interesting features. Sure, could have used Python or anything else, but this is how it's going for now. I choose to drink this particular Kool-Aid for now.

paisible 15 years ago | |

Making server-side JS obvious & popular - that's something only Node.js was seemingly able to do :p

DrJ 15 years ago | |

is there anything only one language can do? I believe both answers is a no. I think we should be asking 'is there something that is best done with node'

dumbphone 15 years ago | | |

So what's done best with Node?

DrJ 15 years ago | | |

Asynchronous Event Based Web Servers? :X

dumbphone 15 years ago | | |

Sure, alright, but that's supposed to mean faster servers and a smaller footprint, and since one or two people here mentioned that Node doesn't really live up to that, my question is: What does Node offer me in terms of speed and footprint that, say, nginx doesn't?

ignifero 15 years ago | | |

... which are used to build web pages sent through a synchronous, request-response protocol that is HTTP. I understand asynchronous events are used in GUI design, where you have actual asynchronous sources (e.g. mouse), but what are the benefits for a web page?