The advantages of using Node.js for IoT are as follows:
- Fast: Code written in JavaScript executes extremely fast, which enables you to build scalable and network-intensive applications. Google's V8 engine compiles the JavaScript directly into assembly code, ready for execution by the processor.
- Asynchronous and event-driven: All requests to the server application written in Node.js are handled in asynchronous/non-blocking fashion. The server never waits for request/API calls to return and it moves to serve the next request. Event or callback functions are used to get responses for previously called requests/APIs once their execution is complete. This helps in maintaining a high level of concurrency and ...