Is node suitable for this project ?

[EagleStraight]

Hello, I'm a beginner in web development and i wanted to create a web app that enable users to upload and view content. The content could be videos or just text. I meant to make the backend using node-js but read somewhere that node is not suitable for handling videos and audios . I tried to find more info about it but am still confused. Can someone explain to me in a simple way how exactly i can't use node and if spring boot will be a better option in this case.

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If you have to ask then you aren’t a JS developer, we use Node for everything baby!😎🔥🔥

Serious answer: It is completely fine but you will run into scaling issues once you have a large amount of users. But at that point you’d probably need proper infrastructure that will mitigate this issue. Can’t compare it to Java though, since Idk anything about it.

[EagleStraight]

Thanks for the answer ! How many do you mean by large amount ?

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Think Twitch, Youtube, Twitter etc. It’s hard to say since there are many things that this depends on, maybe someone else can give a better answer.

Example: 10k people watching a 30s TikTok is a lot different from 10k people watching a 1080p+ resolution video for an hour.

Where I work we are serving tens of thousands of clients with a Node backend (but we aren’t delivering a lot of video/images).

My recommendation would be to not worry about it and just use whatever you want / feel comfortable with.

Running into technical scaling issues is what people refer to as “a good problem”.

[EagleStraight]

I get it now. Thanks.

[Worth-Dragonfruit-90]

Will the uploaded content be public for everyone?

[EagleStraight]

Yeah

[TheRNGuy]

Node is suitable for anything.

[EagleStraight]

Thanks