Node.js Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages:-

a)      Single Page Applications

b)     Streaming Data

c)      A Real-time Applications like online games, collaboration tools and chat rooms etc.

d)     I/O bound Applications

e)      APIs based Applications

f)       JSON based Applications

g)      PROXY Applications

Disadvantages:-

a)      Nested callback hell.

b)     In Node.js, any CPU intensive computation will block the responsiveness.

c)      Dealing with files can be a bit of a pain.

d)     In Node.js, the relational database is a bit of a pain.

e)      It's asynchronous programming model not for synchronous model.