{"id":661002,"date":"2013-05-30T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=650405"},"modified":"2013-05-30T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T10:00:09","slug":"with-1m-new-downloads-in-3-months-node-js-momentum-just-keeps-on-keeping-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/661002","title":{"rendered":"With 1M new downloads in 3 months, Node.js momentum just keeps on keeping on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that <a href=\"http:\/\/strongloop.com\/\">Strongloop<\/a>\u00a0would tout the traction Node.js is getting in the market &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/03\/11\/startup-strongloop-brings-supported-node-js-to-red-hat\/\"> the startup was founded<\/a> a few months ago\u00a0to bring commercially supported versions of the language to Red Hat Linux, MacOS, Ubuntu and Windows.<\/p>\n<p>But even more neutral observers give the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2011\/12\/01\/more-proof-that-enterprises-love-node-js\/\">server-side JavaScript framework<\/a>\u00a0its due. After all, the four-year-old Node.js is great for writing high-performance servers that need to handle APIs and fast data ingress and egress.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sampling of \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/strongloop.com\/infographic\">Strongloop&#8217;s new fun facts<\/a> about Node.js:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There have been more than 1 million downloads of the latest V.0.10 release in three months.<\/li>\n<li>Big name users include Dell, General Motors, Dow Jones, Walmart, Yahoo and Airbnb.<\/li>\n<li>Node is the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/popular\/starred\">second-most popular project on Github.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From 2011 till now, Indeed.com job postings for Node.js skills soared 22,500 (!) percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For another, earlier take on why developers flock to Node, check out this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2011\/07\/06\/meet-the-next-big-programing-star-node-js\/\">Stacey Higginbotham post<\/a>\u00a0from 2011.<\/p>\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=14960843&#038;%23038;post=650405&#038;%23038;subd=gigaom2&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/1008864\/GigaOM_RSS_300x250&#038;sz=300x250&#038;%23038;c=333456\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/1008864\/GigaOM_RSS_300x250&#038;sz=300x250&#038;%23038;c=333456\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:<\/strong><br \/>Subscriber content. <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/?utm_source=cloud&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_campaign=auto3&#038;utm_term=650405+node-js-momentum-keeps-on-keeping-on&#038;utm_content=gigabarb\">Sign up for a free trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2012\/03\/a-near-term-outlook-for-big-data\/?utm_source=cloud&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_campaign=auto3&#038;utm_term=650405+node-js-momentum-keeps-on-keeping-on&#038;utm_content=gigabarb\">A near-term outlook for big data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2012\/01\/there-is-more-to-node-js-than-buzz\/?utm_source=cloud&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_campaign=auto3&#038;utm_term=650405+node-js-momentum-keeps-on-keeping-on&#038;utm_content=gigabarb\">There is more to Node.js than buzz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/report\/how-fourth-quarter-2012-will-affect-it-spending-in-2013\/?utm_source=cloud&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_campaign=auto3&#038;utm_term=650405+node-js-momentum-keeps-on-keeping-on&#038;utm_content=gigabarb\">How fourth-quarter 2012 will affect IT spending in 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=CZPEUCVygwE:pHqN8wvc7Lo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/CZPEUCVygwE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that Strongloop\u00a0would tout the traction Node.js is getting in the market &#8211; the startup was founded a few months ago\u00a0to bring commercially supported versions of the language to Red Hat Linux, MacOS, Ubuntu and Windows. But even more neutral observers give the\u00a0server-side JavaScript framework\u00a0its due. After all, the four-year-old Node.js is great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}