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Pros of FileMaker
Pros of Node.js
  • 2
    Rapid development
  • 2
    REST API
  • 1
    API
  • 1
    Permissions
  • 1
    All included
  • 1
    Easy to learn
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    Npm
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    Javascript
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    Great libraries
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    High-performance
  • 805
    Open source
  • 487
    Great for apis
  • 477
    Asynchronous
  • 425
    Great community
  • 390
    Great for realtime apps
  • 296
    Great for command line utilities
  • 86
    Websockets
  • 84
    Node Modules
  • 69
    Uber Simple
  • 59
    Great modularity
  • 58
    Allows us to reuse code in the frontend
  • 42
    Easy to start
  • 35
    Great for Data Streaming
  • 32
    Realtime
  • 28
    Awesome
  • 25
    Non blocking IO
  • 18
    Can be used as a proxy
  • 17
    High performance, open source, scalable
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    Non-blocking and modular
  • 15
    Easy and Fun
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    Easy and powerful
  • 13
    Future of BackEnd
  • 13
    Same lang as AngularJS
  • 12
    Fullstack
  • 11
    Fast
  • 10
    Scalability
  • 10
    Cross platform
  • 9
    Simple
  • 8
    Mean Stack
  • 7
    Great for webapps
  • 7
    Easy concurrency
  • 6
    Typescript
  • 6
    Fast, simple code and async
  • 6
    React
  • 6
    Friendly
  • 5
    Control everything
  • 5
    Its amazingly fast and scalable
  • 5
    Easy to use and fast and goes well with JSONdb's
  • 5
    Scalable
  • 5
    Great speed
  • 5
    Fast development
  • 4
    It's fast
  • 4
    Easy to use
  • 4
    Isomorphic coolness
  • 3
    Great community
  • 3
    Not Python
  • 3
    Sooper easy for the Backend connectivity
  • 3
    TypeScript Support
  • 3
    Blazing fast
  • 3
    Performant and fast prototyping
  • 3
    Easy to learn
  • 3
    Easy
  • 3
    Scales, fast, simple, great community, npm, express
  • 3
    One language, end-to-end
  • 3
    Less boilerplate code
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    Npm i ape-updating
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    Event Driven
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    Lovely
  • 1
    Creat for apis
  • 0
    Node

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Cons of FileMaker
Cons of Node.js
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    Expensive
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    Bound to a single CPU
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    New framework every day
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    Lots of terrible examples on the internet
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    Asynchronous programming is the worst
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    Callback
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    Javascript
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    Dependency hell
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    Dependency based on GitHub
  • 10
    Low computational power
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    Very very Slow
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    Can block whole server easily
  • 7
    Callback functions may not fire on expected sequence
  • 4
    Breaking updates
  • 4
    Unstable
  • 3
    Unneeded over complication
  • 3
    No standard approach
  • 1
    Bad transitive dependency management
  • 1
    Can't read server session

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What is FileMaker?

It is a Platform to create innovative custom apps for your workplace.

What is Node.js?

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

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