Help deciding Next.js/Node.js vs .NET API back-end
Hello. I really want to use .NET as my API back-end for a practice app I'm building. However, I don't think I can justify using .NET over Node.js. The app I am building doesn't necessarily need static-typing, heavy security, or heavy computation which are .NET strengths. I want to keep the type of app I am building to myself. Can you guys help based on what I told you?
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If you use typescript for your express.js or whatever backend, you're main difference is whether you wanna fight with NPM or nuget.
Personally for my backend I prefer C#, but I am a C# dev first and js dev second. Both are very well documented libaries/languages, they have massive amounts of community support, are very popular on stack overflow, but C# will largely perform way better.
Id say the big thing is C#'s async Tasks are a lot more rigorous and easier to wield than Js's promises, if you need a specific selling point for one vs the other.
Thank you