How Nodejs can grow your eCommerce business?

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How Nodejs can grow your eCommerce business?

• According to a latest study, there are 1.92
  billion digital buyers in 2019 globally.
• Missing a huge chunk of customers is not at all a
  good idea. Therefore, an eCommerce website is
  crucial for your retail business. Lets have a
  quick glance over the rise of eCommerce industry
  though various facts and stats
• In 2019, sales over eCommerce platforms are
  expected to account for 13.7 of retail sales
  worldwide.
• Nearly half of American small and medium scale
  businesses do not have a website.
• The top reason people shop on eCommerce platforms
  is that theyre able to shop at all hours of the
  day.
• 65 of shoppers look up the comparison of price
  on their mobile device while in a physical
  store.
• 85 of customers conduct thorough online research
  before making an online purchase.
• 81 of consumers trust the advice of their
  friends family over businesses promotion.
• 80 of people stop doing business with any
  company because of the poor experience of
  customers.

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But, which platform you should choose for your
eCommerce website? No doubt, Nodejs is gaining
momentum and popularity in the eCommerce world
with a great pace. With many advanced features,
Nodejs is becoming the preferred choice of
developers to build eCommerce website. In this
blog post, we will study the role of node js for
eCommerce websites and how node js benefits for
eCommerce web development services. So, lets
begin What exactly is eCommerce? eCommerce
comprises selling and buying goods over the
Internet. All the products are listed by the
sellers for the buyers to purchase. Most of the
people think of eCommerce as selling and buying
of physical goods online, however, it includes
digital services and products as well. The first
transaction on eCommerce took place on August
11th, 1994. It comprises the sale of a music CD
through an eCommerce website named NetMarket
which is an American retail platform. What is
global market of eCommerce? As mentioned in the
introduction part of this blog, the market of
eCommerce is huge and is expanding with a great
pace. There are many top eCommerce websites that
are now massive multinational companies. Infact,
worlds richest man Jeff Bezos is the founder of
an eCommerce website Amazon. At the end of the
year 2017, retail eCommerce sales amounted to US
2.3 trillion. Now the experts estimate that
itll increase to approximately US 4.88
trillion by
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• the year 2021. As of mid of the year 2018, the
  top 5 countries in terms of the
• eCommerce sales volume were as mentioned below
• China
• USA
• UK
• Japan
• Here are the top 5 eCommerce platforms in terms
  of Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) at the end of
  the year 2018 were as mentioned below
• Alibaba
• Amazon
• JD.com
• eBay
• What exactly is Nodejs?

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• Immediate Client-app communication
• Growth of development libraries
• Swift Development productivity
• Less Development Cost
• Reduced time to market
• Delivering a robust solution
• Fastened framework
• Lets discuss these attributes in an elaborative
  manner
• Reduce the development time and cost of any
  eCommerce website
• NodeJs can get access to create the source code
  and rather than emerging from the scratch,
  personalize this solution so as to save your
  efforts and time.
• You will get your eCommerce sites 10x more
  rapidly
• To build an eCommerce website on NodeJS that will
  increase the speed of your
• eCommerce application and allowing faster loading
  of pages with 0.01 downtime.

• Sustaining Mobile App Development
• eCommerce solution offered in Node js is fit for
  mobile application development as well as to use
  both front end and back end website and mobile
  applications.
• Encouraging revenue Increase

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• Using Node Js platform, your eCommerce web apps
  will be quicker, therefore,
• pulling more number of visitors with more
  conversions. You will have the potential of
  earning more revenue for your business.
• Transferring to the tardiest technology
• You will the privilege of transferring your
  existing eCommerce website to the modern
  technologies, holding your eCommerce web app on
  part with the newest
• aims and the best practices of development
• Customization services
• In addition to this. The developers can squeeze
  the authorization code and personalize it for
  any requirement of your eCommerce website with
  the help of
• Node Js. This development platform offers the
  best customization of services.
• SEO features
• This run time environment platform facilitates
  the customization of SEO friendly titles and
  URLs. Therefore, one can easily navigate the data
  structure data within the website.
• Simple yet robust

9. It is budget friendly
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The I/O model of Node.js is quite effective which
does not obstruct the I/O operations despite the
fact that its working on real-time basis. All
website applications can get updated
quickly. It also reduces the overall development
cost because you do not need to employ two
different teams for creating front-end as well as
back-end. When you hire Node.js developers, they
will suffice your job in an effective way. Here
are some features of the web applications with
the Node.JS facility A lightweight website loads
quite quickly, and its also easy to rectify the
errors. The code reusability and Node.JS testing
reduces the development cost. In addition to
this, the important filter and search feature in
the eCommerce web apps can be implemented using
AJAX and JSON communication. It also offers
reduced parsing time. What is NPM and Node
modules? NPM (Node package manager) These are
the types of libraries which are built by
community which will resolve most of your
generic problems of coding, NPM has many packages
which you can use in your web apps to make your
development cost-efficient and a bit
faster. Node Modules A reusable set of code
which existence does not impact coincidentally
other code across different modules. You can
write different modules and use them in
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• different types of applications. Node.js offers
  many sets of built-in modules
• (NPM) that can be reused across without any
  further installation.
• How to create an eCommerce platform based on Node
  Js?
• A custom software development project in order to
  build a Node.js based
• eCommerce open source platform comprises the
  following steps
• STEP 1 EMBRACE AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
• eCommerce entrepreneurs most often enhance their
  web mobile apps, therefore, iterative
  development is crucial. Agile approach is the
  right methodology for this kind of project.
• STEP 2 INDUCT A SKILLED EXPERIENCED TEAM
• You need a dedicated development team with the
  below mentioned roles
• Business analysts
• UI/UX designers

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• It enables dedicated Node.js development teams to
  focus on only coding. Heroku
• handles the networking, cloud infrastructure,
  middleware, servers, operating system (OS), 3rd
  party API integration, runtime environment, and
  scaling.
• It has a razor-like focus on being a great web
  application development platform. It ensures a
  good experience of developer.
• Heroku enables developers to manage, deploy, and
  scale the Node.js apps. You can also access
  their comprehensive documentation from here.
• I have also earlier explained in how it works, in
  How to deploy your Dart app to Heroku?.
• STEP 4 DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL NODE.JS
• You can take the below mentioned steps in order
  to download and install Node.js
• You can visit the download webpage of Node.js.
  After that you can find platform- specific
  installers.
• You can install Node.js by using Node Package
  Manager (NPM) which is a popular package
  manager. In addition to this, it has a big
  collection of reusable code. You can visit the
  js package manager page in order to learn how you
  can install the Node.js for your platform.

STEP 5 USE REPUTED NODE.JS ECOMMERCE
FRAMEWORKS If you want to expedite the Node.js
eCommerce development project, you can use
well-known frameworks. You can have multiple
options for that, e.g.
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• OPTION 1 YMPLE ECOMMERCE NODE.JS FRAMEWORK
• It is an open-source framework and it is a robust
  choice for eCommerce. This framework offers the
  following advantages and features
• This framework uses a modern technology stack.
• You can also get fully responsive templates for
  design. Buyers can also use this framework
  easily on their mobile devices.
• This framework provides complete integration with
  backend and frontend.
• There are integrations with PayPal and Stripe for
  this framework.
• There is extensive documentation for this
  framework
• You can also check out their eCommerce modules
  over here.
• Your development team can also access an
  elaborative NPM documentation for Ymple.

• OPTION 2 SCHEMA.IO ECOMMERCE NODE.JS FRAMEWORK
• This eCommerce Node.js framework platform offers
  the following features
• There are powerful and robust APIs covering
  various eCommerce functions.
• You can set up a responsive website quite easily
  that will work equally well on your smartphone.
• If you are an entrepreneur, you can easily
  configure the eCommerce store using the admin
  dashboard, where you can set up workflows.
• The platform offers high performance and
  scalability.

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• Entrepreneurs can easily personalize how their
  eCommerce store will work.
• You can click this link for finding their
  documentation.
• In addition to this, there is an elaborative NPM
  documentation for Schema.io which covers
  connecting, installation, usage, caching, etc.
  Your development team
• can access it here.
• OPTION 3 TOTAL.JS FRAMEWORK
• This framework supports several use cases
  including eCommerce apps. Here are their
  advantages and features
• This is a full-featured framework which enables
  fast development.
• You can create a high performing eCommerce web
  application, and scaling it will be quite easy.
• This framework includes NoSQL databases, which
  are crucial for eCommerce. Location, Media
  streaming etc. are important for eCommerce, and
  this framework supports these efficiently.
• There is high-quality and elaborative
  documentation for this framework. Your dedicated
  developer can also access host of tutorials for
  this framework. Your coding team can read the
  NPM documentation for Total.js from here.
• OPTION 4 KOA.JS FRAMEWORK
• Koa.js is a popular Node.js framework which help
  in eCommerce web application development. You
  can check out the following

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• Their NPM documentation, which covers various
  How-to guides, installation
• guide, requests, responses, etc.
• There is an elaborative tutorial which covers the
  development of eCommerce web app, which can
  benefit your dedicated ecommerce developers.

• OPTION 5 REACTION COMMERCE PLATFORM
• It is an open-source platform which is built
  using Meteor JS framework. Reaction Commerce
  includes various technologies like Node.js,
  JavaScript, MongoDB, to name a few. This
  platform provides the following advantages and
  features
• This is a fully open-source project, where
  developers have complete access to the code
  base. This platform enables flexibility and
  scalability.
• Product management, adding product images,
  inventory management, etc. is quite easy using
  this platform.
• The platform enables customer profile management,
  easy order management, check-out processing, and
  email management.
• Reaction Commerce provides product search,
  payment gateway integration, user
  authentication, etc.
• Its easy to configure promotions, discounts, and
  flexible shipping rates.
• The UI design is pretty easier with its big
  library of themes. Furthermore, the platform has
  responsive design templates.
• This platform has extensive and elaborative
  documentation for their platform.

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• You can also visit their GitHub repository in
  order to download Reaction
• Commerce.
• STEP 6 USE HEROKU DEVOPS FOR CONTINUOUS
  INTEGRATION (CI)
• With the help of this iterative app development
  software project, your team will test, develop,
  and deploy in multiple iterations. In addition to
  this, you require
• appropriate tools for building test automation,
  management, and deployment management.
• With the help of Heroku-- which is a fully
  managed cloud PaaS-- this is easy, as follows
• They provide a robust CI process with the help of
  their DevOps methods, processes, and tools
  (PMT).
• You can read about their DevOps capabilities in
  Heroku is for developers.
• Heroku also explains their Pipelines, review
  process, CI, release, GitHub
• integration, etc. with a good amount of detail.
  Read Continuous delivery on Heroku for a
  description.
• STEP 7 PROJECT MANAGEMENT WITH THE SCRUM
  TECHNIQUE
• One of the best approaches for managing this
  project is using the Scrum
• technique. I have explained this in detail
  earlier. You need to do the following

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• Form a cross-functional dedicated team where
  developers, designers, testers, etc.
• work together. This is a Scrum team.
• The dedicated project manager performs the role
  of Scrum Master.
• You have one or more than one Product owners
  that provide the needs as features in a document
  which is called the Product Backlog.
• Iterations in the Scrum project is called
  Sprints.
• The dedicated development team conducts a Sprint
  planning meeting. Here, the team estimate the
  features, and slots a wide features in different
  sprints, based on overall priority.
• When the team works on a Sprint based approach,
  they conduct a Daily stand- up meeting which
  is called project status reporting.
• When features are working properly, and ready for
  the demonstration, the team calls Sprint review
  meeting. The project stakeholders approve all
  the sprint briefings in this meeting.
• At the end of sprint, the dedicated development
  team meets in lessons-learned exercise which
  is called Sprint retrospective meeting.
• You can consider using a good project management
  tool for example Asana for this.

Lets Wrap Up As earlier mentioned, Node.JS is
an enterprise-grade programming technology which
can assist you with both backend and frontend
aspects of any web application. But, if you want
to reap the benefits of Nodejs, you should choose
a good eCommerce development company for your
project. Their, you can hire
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eCommerce developer that can create a secure,
scalable and feature packed Nodejs based
eCommerce websites.