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Nikita Verkhoshintsev
Courses Plus Student 22,476 PointsBuilding marketing website on Express and Node.js. Worth it?
Hello,
I am planning to build a simple marketing website for my agency. A landing page, services, contacts pages and business blog. I've read that Node apps are really fast and there are good hosting options (e.g. DigitalOcean with their SSD cloud server). Does it worth to build this kind of website with the Express.js in terms of speed and performance?
1 Answer
Andreas Remdt
7,721 PointsThat depends on your needs. Node.js is great for web applications, that's true, but you have to ask yourself if it is worth to implement the backend. It sounds like your website only contains a few HTML pages (except for the blog part), and in this case I would stick with a simple HTML solution without a backend.
However, if you plan to implement a login, contact form and other stuff (generally speaking a more complex web application), go ahead and use Node.js. Have a look at Ghost, which is a beautiful and free blogging system based on Express and Node.js. As far as I know, you are also able to manage static pages.
In terms of speed there's nothing wrong with Node.js, it is blazing fast and highly scalable, even for big enterprise solutions.