Building Mobile Apps with Node.js

Node.js is a popular development platform to create the web and mobile applications. The main reason behind is that allows to develop both server side code and client side code using a single language. No longer are organizations needed to maintain separate teams of the back end and front end developers. The other major advantages including having over 110, 000 modules in the NPM repository. These pre-built libraries play a major role in reducing the overall development time of Node.js mobile apps.

Node.js work very well for creating responsive web applications that can be accessed via a web browser. Several top notch companies around the world are using the platform of Node.js to power their web-based mobile apps. But in many cases it becomes important to create an installable application for iOS, Android and Windows that helps to take advantage of the app marketplace. To achieve these developers keep the entire business logic on the server and the mobile app just acts as a user interface.

There is a glitch in executing Node.js apps on mobile operating systems. As Node.js is built on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, you can run Node js powered apps on Android. But running Node js on iOS is not possible. As iOS does not allow the JIT compiling, Node js cannot be deployed native on iOS. Still without supporting iOS, Node.js has managed to create its niche in this  competitive mobile app development platform market.

Few days back a project named JXCore was released which has opened up the opportunities to create apps that can run on iOS too. It is a great breakthrough and on completion of the project the popularity of Node.js will increase many folds.