Node.js development for products that talk to everything

Node earns its place at the boundary — where your product meets other systems, other protocols and other people's uptime. That is where we use it.

Overview

Node at the system boundary

Node earns its place at the boundary — where your product meets other systems, other protocols and other people’s uptime.

Where Node belongs in a system, and where it does not

Node handles many concurrent connections cheaply, which makes it a natural fit for API gateways, integrations, webhooks and realtime features. It shares a language with the front end, so types and validation can be written once.

It is a poor fit for CPU-bound work, and adding it to a team that lives in PHP or Python doubles the maintenance surface for no benefit — that is a real cost, not a preference.

When Node is the right call

I/O-heavy work, integration layers, realtime features, and teams already writing TypeScript. If your bottleneck is computation rather than connections, we will point you elsewhere.

Signals Node fits the job

  • the service mostly waits on other services;
  • you need websockets, streams or queues;
  • front end and back end can share types;
  • integrations and webhooks are the core of the work;
  • the team already writes TypeScript daily.
Signals Node fits: I/O-heavy service, realtime features, shared types, integration-centric work

Price

From $7,990

Timeline

3 weeks to first release

Payment

50/50 by milestone

Pricing

What a project on this stack costs

Same packages as everywhere on the site — the stack does not change the price, the scope does.

Scoping Sprint

$4,490

Architecture, breakdown, risks and a fixed quote — credited in full against any package within 30 days

1 week

Launch-Ready

$18,900

Up to 6 flows, granular roles, 3+ integrations, tests and CI/CD

6–8 weeks

Hourly team

$28–55/hour

Open-ended work by role: mid, senior, tech lead, DevOps, QA, design

From 40 h/month

Dedicated team from three months: −10%. Agency partners from 320 hours a month: −15%. Full price list.

Comparison

NestJS or plain Express

The choice that decides how the service looks in its second year.

Criterion
ExpressNestJS
NestJSExpress
Small service, one job
Ideal
Overhead you do not need
More than two developers
Everyone invents structure
Structure comes with the framework
Background jobs and modules
Assembled by hand
First-class
Onboarding a new engineer
Read everything
Read the module
When it wins
Small, focused services
Anything that will grow
Scope

What we build with it

Where this stack earns its place in a project, and what we would use instead if it did not.

APIs and BFF layers

Gateways and backend-for-frontend layers with typed contracts, so mobile and web clients stop negotiating with your core system directly.

Integration layers

Webhooks, third-party APIs, retries, idempotency and dead-letter handling — the plumbing that decides whether integrations wake you up at night.

Realtime features

Websockets, presence, queues and streams for products where waiting for a refresh is not acceptable.

NestJS for larger domains

When a service grows past a few endpoints, NestJS gives it structure that a new engineer can read without a tour.

Fit

When it is the right call — and when it is not

The best stack is usually the one your team can maintain after we leave.

Right for

I/O-heavy work, integration-heavy products, teams already writing TypeScript, and anything where sharing types between front end and back end saves real time.

Not right for

CPU-bound computation, and teams that live in PHP or Python — we will not add a second language to your stack for fashion.

Rates

$28–55/hour by role

Fixed builds

From $7,990

Discounts

Dedicated −10% · partners −15%

How we work

How we keep a Node project alive

The part that is specific to this stack rather than true of every project.

Types at the boundary outwards: schemas validated at the edge so bad input fails where it arrives, not three layers deep. Contract tests against every integration, because their documentation will be wrong at some point.

Dependency discipline matters more here than in most ecosystems: the npm supply-chain risk is real, so we pin, audit and keep the dependency count deliberately boring. Observability from the first commit, and an explicit plan for each Node LTS transition rather than a panic every two years.

Why us

Why teams bring us in for this stack

Four things we can prove, not four adjectives.

Types at the boundary

Schemas validated where input arrives, so bad data fails at the edge rather than three layers deep.

Dependency discipline

The npm supply chain is the real risk here: we pin, audit in CI and keep the tree deliberately boring.

Contract tests on integrations

Their documentation will be wrong eventually; the tests are how you find out before your users do.

LTS transitions planned

Node upgrades are maintenance with a test suite behind them, not an emergency every two years.

Industries

What we buildfor your industry

Node sits at the integration boundary of our logistics, e-commerce and SaaS work.

18 sectors

  • IT companies and digital agencies
  • Insurers and brokers
  • Lenders and microfinance
  • E-commerce
  • Wholesale and distribution
  • Manufacturing
  • Freight and forwarding
  • Clinics and medical centres
  • Dental
  • Car dealers and service centres
  • EdTech
  • Legal and consulting firms
  • Equipment rental
  • Real estate agencies
  • Property developers
  • Travel and events
  • Beauty and wellness
  • Construction and renovation
FAQ

Questions we get about this stack

Answered by the people who would do the work, not by a sales team.

NestJS or plain Express?

Express for small services with one job; NestJS once there are modules, background jobs and more than one developer. Migrating later is possible but rarely free.

How do you handle npm vulnerabilities?

Pinned versions, automated audit in CI, a deliberate minimum of dependencies, and a review before anything new joins the tree.

Can you share types with our front end?

Yes — that is one of the main reasons to pick this stack, and we set it up so the types are generated rather than copied.

What about Node LTS upgrades?

Planned as maintenance work with a test suite behind it, not as an emergency when support ends.

Can you work inside our existing Node codebase?

Yes, starting with a short audit of the dependency tree, the test coverage and the deployment path.

2–4×
faster on the code-writing share
in 3 weeks
from idea to MVP
230+
projects delivered
17 years
of engineering experience
Work

Work we can show you

Need this stack with a senior review included?

Tell us what exists today — a green field, a legacy codebase, or a team that needs two more pairs of hands. We answer with a scope, a price and a date.

We do not take work on a stack we cannot review internally at senior level.