Node.js development company
One language across the stack, and a runtime built for work that mostly waits.
We build Node.js services: REST and GraphQL APIs, real-time features over WebSockets, queue workers, and the integration layer between two systems that were never designed to speak to each other. TypeScript throughout, on Node.js 24 LTS, with the queue in place before the first email is ever sent from a request handler.
What is Node.js, and what is it genuinely good at?
Node.js runs JavaScript on the server. Its single-threaded, event-driven model handles thousands of concurrent connections cheaply, provided those connections spend most of their life waiting on a database, an API, a file or a person. That describes most web backends, which is why Node became a default for APIs and integration services rather than a fashion.
For a product team the real benefit is one language across the system. The same engineer moves between the React front-end and the API without a context switch. Types can be shared, so renaming a field breaks the build instead of production. One toolchain to learn, one set of security advisories to read on a Monday morning.
Node is a bad fit for sustained computation. Image processing, large report generation, anything that pins a CPU core will block the event loop and take your API down with it. The answer is not to avoid Node, it is to move that work onto a queue and a worker, which is how we structure it from the first sprint. When the workload is genuinely computational end to end, we will point you at Python or .NET instead.
We build on Node.js 24 LTS with TypeScript, NestJS or Fastify depending on how much structure the team needs, and BullMQ on Redis for background work. Long-term support releases are not a preference here. They are what your hosting provider, your security scanner and your future hires all expect to find.
What we build with Node.js
REST and GraphQL APIs
Versioned, documented, rate-limited APIs, with typed clients generated for the web and mobile apps that consume them.
Real-time features
Chat, live dashboards, notifications and presence over WebSockets or server-sent events, with a Redis adapter so they survive a second instance.
Background jobs and schedulers
Queues for email, exports, imports, invoices and webhooks, with retries, dead-letter handling and a screen where someone can see what failed.
Integration and middleware layers
One service that talks to your CRM, ERP, payment gateway and courier, so the front-end team never has to learn four APIs.
Explore →Headless commerce and content backends
APIs behind a Next.js or mobile front-end, with caching, search and webhooks into whatever holds the data.
Explore →Modernising legacy Node services
Callback-era code, unsupported runtimes and abandoned dependencies brought onto an LTS release, with tests written around the risky parts first.
Our Node.js stack, by layer
Node.js compared with the alternatives
Node.js vs PHP and Laravel
Laravel is more productive for a classic database-backed application: batteries included, one deployment, an enormous hosting market. Node wins when the product is API-first, needs real-time features, or when sharing one language and one set of types with the front-end team is worth more than Laravel's conventions. Both are defensible. The team you will keep decides it.
Node.js vs Python
Python owns data, scientific computing and machine learning, and Django is a serious web framework in its own right. Node is better at high-concurrency input and output and at holding open connections. On several projects we run both and let each do the half it is good at, with a queue between them.
NestJS vs Fastify or Express
NestJS imposes modules, dependency injection and a testing structure, which is what you want for a large team or a service that will outlive whoever wrote it. Fastify is leaner and quicker for a focused API. We choose on team size and expected lifespan, and we have removed NestJS from small services where it was pure ceremony.
Node.js, answered
Is Node.js fast enough for our traffic?
For input and output work, database queries, API calls, streaming responses, yes, comfortably, and it scales sideways behind a load balancer. The failure mode is CPU-heavy work sitting on the request path. We move that to queue workers as a design decision at the start rather than as a rescue after the first slow Monday.
Which Node version do you build on?
The current long-term support release, Node.js 24. LTS versions get security fixes for years and are what managed hosting, container base images and scanners expect. Client applications do not go on odd-numbered releases, whatever feature they happen to ship first.
Do you use JavaScript or TypeScript on the server?
TypeScript, always. On a backend the types pay for themselves the first time somebody renames a database column: the compiler lists every affected file in seconds instead of you finding them one at a time in an error log a week later.
Can Node.js talk to our existing PHP or .NET system?
Yes, and it is a common shape. A Node integration layer in front of systems that cannot be changed, presenting one clean API to your web and mobile apps while the older systems carry on doing what they do.
How do you handle background jobs and email?
Never on the request. Work goes to a Redis-backed queue with retries, a dead-letter queue and visibility into failures, so a third-party API having a bad afternoon cannot hold up a user's page or silently swallow their form.
Can we hire a Node.js developer from you?
Yes. Dedicated Node.js engineers are $22/hour or $2,880/month with a 15-day trial. Most of them also write TypeScript on the front-end, which is useful when a feature crosses the line.
Need an API, a queue or a real-time feature?
Describe the integrations and the shape of your traffic. You get an architecture sketch and a range, in writing, within two working days.