Speed up Your Node.js App with Native Addons

What’s faster, C++ or JavaScript?

JavaScript is a ridiculously fast scripting language. But how fast is JavaScript compared to C++? Let’s look at this example that computes prime numbers in Node with…

Redesigning Nodejs.org: Part 1

A Competitive Case Study

Node.js and the Web Tooling Benchmark

Historically, Node.js has been viewed as a server-side tool. Its core library, tests and…

How I ported bcrypt to new N-API

In a very simple way Native Addons could be considered as C/C++ code called from JavaScript.

They are a bridge between our application programming language JavaScript and native environment that is completely written in C/C++.

ConsumerDriven Contract Testing with Pact

At RisingStack we love working with Microservices, as this kind of architecture gives…

The Node.js Community was amazing in 2017! Here’s the proof:

Let me just start by stating this:

2017 was a great year for the Node.js Community!

Our favorite platform has finally matured to be widely adopted in the enterprise, also, a…