Migrate from WCF to node.js
Problem
At the moment, I write a WCF Service that gives the following functionality:
- Videoupload and -download
- Usermanagement
- Groupmanagement
- Filemanagement
- A forum
- Presencemanagement
As database I use a SQL Server 2012 from Microsoft.
The service gets called via REST, so this would not be the problem.
My question is, what Advantage can I get with node.js or better said, is there any advantage?
The biggest advantage is in my point of view, that I am fully platform indipendent. Are there any other advantages?
Greets Knerd
Update, I posted a new question here https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/188926/migrate-wcf-to-node-js
Solution
You get the usual advantages and disadvantages Node.js has.
I.e.:
- Platform independence
- Everything is asynchronous
- You have the same language for the backend as for the HTML frontend
- ...
Basically, the question whether you can benefit from Node.js IMHO comes down to whether you need to scale pretty much, and if you have lots of I/O to do.
If the answer to both is 'yes' then Node.js may be a pretty good catch for you.
PS: Completely off-topic, but - are you Knerd from the discussion forum of winfuture.de?
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