Why choosing JavaScript?

Announced in 1995 by Netscape and Sun, JavaScript has come a long way.
It was primilary used to make page elements... blink!

A lot has changed since then, now JavaScript is the Internet.

The language is pervasive in our browsers, our operating systems and tomorrow in the Internet of Things.
JavaScript provides a firm foundation for your business since it steadily increases its performance, ecosystem size and adoption rate.

Performance

This chart shows performance on the Kraken benchmark, for browsers from Firefox 3.5 to Chrome 23, on the same hardware.

Kraken Benchmark performance
(source krakenbenchmarkdata)

Ecosystem

The official package manager for Node.js is npm. Over the last year it has grown to the tune of 10x in packages and traffic.

Monthly added modules
(source modulecounts)

Adoption

Some studies show that JavaScript has supplanted Ruby as the language of choice for the plurality of new projects.

New Github repositories by years
(source redmonk)

Last but not least, big players have joined the game.
Companies like Google, Yahoo, PayPal, LinkedIn, Netflix, DailyMail, Microsoft and Wallmart have invested a lot of resources into adopting it.

JavaScript is now considered as a mature and stable language.

JavaScript is enterprise ready.

What is Full Stack JavaScript?

We are currently witnessing two major changes on the software development industry which lead to a certitude:
JavaScript will rule the world (wide web).

The whole offers an extremely competitive Full Stack JavaScript ecosystem compared to existing solutions like .net, Java, Ruby or Python.

You want to use technologies that allow rapid development, constant iteration, maximal efficiency, speed, robustness and more.
You want to be lean and you want to be agile.
You want to use technologies that will help you succeed in the short and long term.

Full Stack JavaScript hits all the marks.

Data-Visualization

Gigantic amounts of data that are being generated on a daily basis let us think that Big Data is a big deal.

With the impending rise of wearable technology and The Internet of Things, it appears the pace of data creation will only increase.
This has lead big data analysts to posit that Data is the new Oil.

We use D3.js to help you to understand and extract value from your data.

We let us take advantage of your refined data by interacting with it
everywhere, at everytime, on everything.

Rich Web Application

Gmail, first released in 2004, was a pioneer as a rich web application.
Crafting such applications was considered expensive to develop and complicated to maintain, and only big web players like Google were able to invested in it.

Since then numerous frameworks were created; EmberJS, BackboneJS, KnockoutJS are the most recognized, and among them AngularJS and React are becoming predominant for professional web development.

Backed by Google

AngularJS is built by Google which has one of the strongest engineering culture.
Combine that with the resources that they have and with the power of open source and you get a really powerful mix.

Increase productivity, reducing costs

Having the ability to scaffold a project quickly with all that you need is key to getting started and producing efficiently. AngularJS came about to standardize web application structure and provide a future template for how client-side apps should be developed. This not only allows you to quickly assemble something up, but it lays the roots for something way bigger to evolve.

Focus on testing

Having testable code is part of AngularJS philosophy.
Making it easy to write tests is crucial.
No matter how good the code is – if it’s not testable, it’s useless in the long run.

Supported by Facebook

React is now open source, but it was first developed at Facebook for internal purposes. After a while, Facebook engineers realized that they created something truly awesome and decided to share their project with the world. It is currently, in addition to Facebook, used by Instagram, The New York Times and Khan Academy in production.

Blazing fast

React creates its own virtual DOM where the components actually live. This approach gives an enormous flexibility and an amazing gains in performance because React calculates what changes need to be made in the DOM beforehand and updates the DOM tree accordingly. This way, React avoids costly DOM operations and makes updates in a very efficient manner.

Reusable and cost-effective

React gives the ability to create our own components that can be later reused and combined. This is a tremendeous productivity boost and let React scale better with complexity by only dealing with small components with encapsulated behavior.

AngularJS and React are a very high quality foundation for building great apps, and doing them quickly.

The growing popularity of these frameworks is huge and companies as big as well-known Banks are on the verge to take the plunge.
The reality is that AngularJS and React are winning the frontend framework war.

Application server

JavaScript is the Internet since it's no longer just a client-side programming language.

Node.js is a way of running JavaScript on the server relying on the powerful Google JavaScript runtime.
Created in 2009, it definitely left the early adopters behind to become a fully operational software platform for scalable server-side and network applications.

Node.js is in competition with Java, .Net, Python, Ruby and PHP solutions and has already be chosen by a number of large companies including Groupon, Oracle, SAP, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Walmart and PayPal.

Node.js uses non-blocking, event-driven I/O to remain lightweight and efficient in the face of data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

You want fast and scalable network applications, you want real-time web.

We can bring you all through our Node.js expertise just in a blink of an eye.

NoSQL

A NoSQL database environment is a non-relational and largely distributed database system that enables rapid, ad-hoc organization and analysis of extremely high-volume, disparate data types.

Big Data is one of the key forces driving the growth and popularity of NoSQL for business.
The almost limitless array of data collection technologies ranging from simple online actions to point of sale systems to GPS tools to smartphones and tablets to sophisticated sensors – and many more – act as force multipliers for data growth.

But you don't need to be Google or having Big Data problem to take benefits of NoSQL databases.

MongoDB is currently used by big names, such as Cisco, LinkedIn, SAP and MTV.

But, NoSQL is a completely new approach and may not suit all the cases, we can help to understand it better and offer you some guidance in your decision making.