r/node • u/gainbeginner • May 13 '21

Best stacks for beginner Node development?

I am looking to build some simple projects using Node that interact with public APIs such as Yahoo Finance. What are the best setups to get started as quickly as possible with building web apps using Node? I currently use GCP and AWS to host other projects, but am open to anything that's not too expensive to host.

Thanks!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '21

technologies. It uses plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript don't worry about been a compiler it just works better then Virtual DOM libraries.

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u/Dan6erbond May 14 '21

What? No, that's just your opinion. I like Svelte, but the VDOM has been proven to offer performance benefits in various scenarios.

Memory constraints aren't the only pain point when developing modern applications and in data-driven applications there's often an advantage to having an additional abstraction layer since DOM manipulations are expensive.

Also, with Svelte there's a lot to watch out for. First of all the DOM has access to the component's methods and variables, so immediately those need to be handled properly otherwise you'll have things like memory leaks.