Agility Enabled with Node.js: Built a Fast and Real-Time eCommerce Application

“The Frontend of a Website Depends Gravely On The Backend.”

With the increasing popularity of web applications, developing a multi-featured and user-friendly eCommerce web app has become an urgent need for our prestigious client. And that’s when our role as an experienced web app development company comes in to consult our client, not just choosing the right technology for the eCommerce platform, but also creating a feature-rich eCommerce web app that satisfies their customers’ needs and earns a good amount of revenue.

We understand that the CTOs of an eCommerce company will need technology that offers significant support for this. Node.js eCommerce actually helped in this situation.

In this tech study, we are going to provide you with information on the entire development process, from client's requirements to successful eCommerce app delivery. We will also talk about how we have leveraged all the features of the Node.js platform, leveraged the benefits of Node development services, and created an eCommerce app.

Fact Check of Node.js: Walmart gained a great deal from swapping out its outdated legacy system with the deadly combination - Node.js and the microservices architecture. The world's largest retailer immediately noticed a 20% increase in total conversions and a 98% increase in mobile conversions. Additionally, they manage to save 40% of the computing power while drastically reducing prices by up to 50%.

The Need for Versatile Technology: What Do We Want to Build?

We know plenty of options are available in the market when choosing the technology or framework to build an eCommerce application. But our client is based out of the USA. They are into selling handmade crafts and artisanal products online. They approached our development team with a request to build a modern-age eCommerce application with futuristic technology.

Our user wanted to build:

• A user-friendly eCommerce app with a responsive design can be accessed from any device.
• That would allow them to showcase their products and allow customers to browse, select, and purchase items easily.
• They had asked to utilize technology that could handle heavy traffic and provide a seamless user experience.

“When Your Site is eCommerce, EVERY SINGLE SECOND MATTERS.”

That’s when we suggested our client to opt for Node.js as the primary technology of the website. No other technology than Node.js could satisfy the business requirements of our clients. Also, Node is the right technology that would provide a seamless checkout process, with multiple payment options and an easy-to-use shopping cart our client had requested.

We gave them two options to build a Node.js eCommerce application, which are:

• Node.js eCommerce app with MEAN/MERN Stack
• Node.js eCommerce app with Microservice Architecture

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Reasons for Choosing Node.js to Build an eCommerce Application

At Radixweb, our Node.js experts knew how to take advantage of Node.js technology and its architecture. Let’s share some of the primary aspects we thought about before we got into eCommerce app development.

Cross-platform Solution: Node.js works on all operating systems and browsers.

High Performance: Node.js is the right choice to get high performance on the server side compared to other runtime technologies like Java, PHP, and Go. The thing is that the V8 JavaScript engine from Google interprets the Node.js code, which converts JS code into more robust machine code rapidly and simply.

High Scalability: Node.js provides higher scalability with built-in features to allow scaling up web applications, thanks to the event-driven design and non-blocking I/O. As a result, it became very easy for our clients to scale up their eCommerce applications, making the technology future-proof for their business.

A Pool of Plugins and Packages in NPM: NPM, a package manager offered by Node.js, has numerous packages that are simple to integrate into a mobile or web application. Because of these packages, our Nodejs developers used an open-source solution rather than having to build everything from scratch. There are over 1000 packages in NPM that provide specific eCommerce functionalities.

Faster Loading Time: Node.js serves as a bridge between the backend and the frontend, and because it is asynchronous, it speeds up loading. Since Node.js supports both backend and frontend, this helped us build chat-based tools to enable real-time communication with customers of eCommerce websites. It also made cross-platform programming incredibly simple for our team.

Lightweight App: Our client’s eCommerce website created with Node.Js loads more quickly and is lightweight. This actually matters to our client for their eCommerce platform.

Our Approach to Developing an eCommerce App with MEAN/MERN Stack: Responding Quickly to Traffic Surges

We chose MEAN and MERN Stack technology to build an eCommerce application for our client. The reason behind choosing MEAN/MERN is they are free, open-source JavaScript-based frameworks that respond quickly to traffic surges.

Some of the major factors we found out for choosing MEAN/MERN Stack, along with Node.js technology, are:

MongoDB: It’s a NoSQL database that is responsible for exchanging and processing data storage and helping Node.js run the server smoothly.

ExpressJS: This back-end web framework helped us develop applications with smooth and simple interfaces for our client’s eCommerce platform.

AngularJS (MEAN Stack): A front-end framework enabled our web development with automatic view-model synchronization.

ReactJS (MERN Stack): We used it as a library, not a framework.

NodeJS: We chose Node.js as it’s efficient, lightweight JavaScript runtime built on V8 JavaScript.

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The Entire Process: A Favor of Choosing Node.js

Node.js technology completely works well with both stacks – MEAN/MERN and is an ideal choice for eCommerce development. Here is how we developed an eCommerce app and what happened in the background:

1. With the utilization of Angular.js in the front-end, the requests from customers (client-side) on the eCommerce app are processed here.
2. Once requests are received, Node is responsible for controlling the process on the server side.
3. Once the requests are completed, Express.js stores and manages them and gives access to the database.
4. Now is the time for Mongo to work. Here, the MongoDB stack fetches the data and proceeds further to Express as soon as the request is accepted.
5. Finally, Node receives the response and sends it further to Angular.

Our motive for utilizing Node.js with MEAN/MERN Stack was a seamless process. In addition, as per our client’s demand, the eCommerce app can still handle and serve at least 10K user requests. This is huge for our client as their ideal purpose was to build an eCommerce website that could handle massive traffic.

Challenges and Solutions

During the development process, our team faced several challenges, including:

Integrating Stripe: Integrating Stripe with Node.js required some advanced knowledge of API integration. We overcame this challenge by leveraging the documentation provided by Stripe and implementing a secure and reliable payment processing system.

Building the Admin Panel: Building the admin panel required a significant amount of custom code. Since we used Express.js and MongoDB, it helped us to build a scalable and flexible admin panel.

Ensuring Website Security: Ensuring website security was a top priority, especially given the sensitive information being processed by the website. We implemented SSL/TLS encryption using secure password hashing algorithms and implementing CSRF protection.

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Result-Driven Outcome

The final product was a responsive, user-friendly eCommerce website that met all of the client's requirements. The technologies we used, especially Node.js, helped our client to expand their online presence, increase sales, and reach a wider audience.

The client was impressed with the quality of our work and the level of support we provided throughout the development process. As a result, they have continued to work with us on additional projects.