--- title: Writing A Microservice Using Node.js | daily.dev description: The post discusses the benefits of using Node.js for web services development and explains how to build a microservice using Node.js. It covers topics such as... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/writing-a-microservice-using-node-js-fcubz1wft twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Writing A Microservice Using Node.js | daily.dev og:description: The post discusses the benefits of using Node.js for web services development and explains how to build a microservice using Node.js. It covers topics such as... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/writing-a-microservice-using-node-js-fcubz1wft og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fCUbz1Wft.png og:image:alt: Writing A Microservice Using Node.js og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Writing A Microservice Using Node.js **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 15 min read · 360 upvotes · 15 comments ## Summary The post discusses the benefits of using Node.js for web services development and explains how to build a microservice using Node.js. It covers topics such as the tech stack, database choice, web framework, validation, configuration, static analysis, testing, logging, metrics, monitoring stack, local infrastructure with Docker, and continuous integration. The code examples and explanations provide valuable insights for Node.js web developers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@nibelune** · 4 upvotes > Nice article. > > You have a funny typo... Deplorability instead of Deployability ;) > > I'm not convinced using mongoDB here is such a good choice. > You state that being schemaless is a benefit... but you use mongoose to have a schema... While MongoDB is really fast at inserting documents (mainly because...it's schemaless...) and reading documents... it's not that good at modifying documents. Did you made any tests against a Postgresql based solution ? **@spartak** · 2 upvotes > I think the title is a bit misleading. This is just a Node.js service, not a microservice. **@arthurhd** · 1 upvotes > JavaScript on the server might be my biggest mistake. **@jofwitsolution** · 0 upvotes > This is a nice piece --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#nodejs](https://daily.dev/tags/nodejs), [#mongodb](https://daily.dev/tags/mongodb), [#microservices](https://daily.dev/tags/microservices), [#express](https://daily.dev/tags/express) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/writing-a-microservice-using-node-js-fcubz1wft) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Writing A Microservice Using Node.js","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/writing-a-microservice-using-node-js-fcubz1wft","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/writing-a-microservice-using-node-js-fcubz1wft"},"datePublished":"2024-06-13T10:52:05.135Z","dateModified":"2024-06-13T10:52:29.965Z","description":"The post discusses the benefits of using Node.js for web services development and explains how to build a microservice using Node.js. 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