JavaScript Tricks to Accomplish Your Business Tasks

5 min readAug 27, 2019

It’s hard to imagine the development process without JavaScript as it has dozens of tricks and can do really amazing things to accomplish both easy and complex tasks to meet specific needs of a particular business. JS software runs almost everywhere and is used in many flagship apps.

In this article, openGeeksLab has shared JavaScript tricks that help to deliver a perfect solution to your product.

Things You Can Build with JavaScript

Facebook, Instagram, Bloomberg, Pinterest, Skype, Tesla, Uber are apps built in React Native.

PayPal, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Mozilla, Netflix, Uber, NASA, GoDaddy, eBay are using Node.js software for their products.

That’s JavaScript programming software at work behind the scenes. React Native is a JavaScript mobile application framework which is used for frontend (client-side) development for iOS, Android OS. Node.js, in turn, is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine for backend (server-side) development.

JavaScript, in addition to obvious stuff like web and mobile apps, websites, server apps, web servers, presentations as websites, gives you access to Machine Learning, AI, Big Data applications, complex video games, chatbots, digital art projects, wearables, robotics, IoT.

JavaScript Full-Stack Development

As we’ve already mentioned, tech stack means what elements to combine to develop your product — languages, frameworks, libraries, patterns, servers, UI/UX solutions. Full-stack development is about building both backend and frontend portions of an application or a web-based platform.

At openGeeksLab, we prefer to apply the MERN stack. MERN is a collection of JavaScript-based technologies — MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js. It is a powerful tool that allows building and deploying high-performing applications as well as makes the development process smoother.

What Reason Are the Biggest Companies Using JavaScript For?

Companies use JS in many flashing apps as it provides cool stuff. Here are the insights into how to use JavaScript:

Popularity and Rapid Growth

JavaScript is the top language according to Stack Overflow and GitHub. As for frameworks, Node.js, Angular, React are the three most popular ones.

Ubiquity

JS is ubiquitous language as it is built into every web browser.

Quicker Development Cycle

Building and executing code on a server-side with Node.js allow ensuring quicker development cycles.

Cross-Platform and Immutability

If backend is written in JavaScript, then a product runs on any service. If frontend is written in JavaScript, then, besides cross-platform, immutability is provided. This means that with a fairly small effort, you can also make a desktop application and a mobile application. That is, once the code is written, you can get a product that works on different platforms without rewriting a single line.

Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

There are specific frameworks which allow writing apps for iOS and Android mobile platforms as well as achieving the desired results by using the same code base.

Asynchronous Operations

Node.js and JavaScript work great with asynchronous operations, which gives an advantage over some other languages and improves work with third-party API, databases, building modular architectures. Python and Go are faster than JavaScript in terms of computation. But Go doesn’t have a community while Python has a bad situation with asynchronous operations.

A Large Number of Frameworks

As for frontend, there is a large number of frameworks with their own communities. This frontend stuff is flexible, so you can create mobile, desktop, or web-based applications without much intervention in the source code. If you need to develop not one, but several applications, then you benefit from it — you can shorten development time and avoid overspending.

Server-Side Rendering (SSR)

Because the same language is used on backend and frontend, you can use server-side rendering (SSR). Most frontend frameworks do frontend rendering. This means that search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing do not see the page’s contents, therefore, indexing is impossible. But when using SSR, rendering on backend is possible, respectively, this removes the problem.

Backend with MongoDB, Express.js, and Node.js Is About Flexibility and Simplicity

There is JS, and there is Node.js. A huge number of ready-made solutions are a great source to implement necessary functionality and standard solutions. Plus, due to the development flexibility and simplicity, you can apply unique features to your project.

Vast User Community, Library Ecosystem

A huge online community provides coders with JavaScript fundamentals, insights, tutorials, articles, videos, libraries, frameworks, regular updates to keep up with the latest trends, developments, widely used JS best practices that guarantee the ultimate experience right out of the box.

Easy to Find Contractors

JavaScript development is central worldwide, it’s easy to find contractors for your project as 71.5% coders are proficient in this language. It’s much harder, for instance, to hire programmers who are strong in Python or Go.

Mobile Apps Development

The most powerful frameworks for mobile apps creation are React Native and Flutter. They both have a unified code base which helps achieving accelerated development.

Also in React Native, there are convenient ways to use native code, which also allows using developments of the native development community on iOS and Android. You can add React Native code to an existing native product and continue development. For example, this happened with Instagram. At first. it was a native application. Facebook then bought Instagram and finished some parts on React Native.

If you are developing a website and a mobile application, then some functionality can be transferred from one platform to another, which also saves time and money.

Flutter, in general, has the same functionality as React Native dev tools. The difference is that Flutter application is written in Dart language. This framework also has a fast growth of community as well as it is supported by Google. But currently, it is not ready for complex products production.

Is JavaScript Coding Software the Best Choice?

As you can see, with JS you get loads of compelling advantages to create such a wide variety of products. This language remains the most accessible worldwide. It’s hard for us to think of its cons since there are nearly no competitive tools to the stuff JS can do.

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