Node.js back-ends that connect everything

Because a stuck ERP sync inside a plugin can take the storefront down with it, and ties your integration's uptime to your shop's deploy cycle. A separate service fails independently — which is exactly what you want.

Yes. We start with a review, document what we find, and then work in your repository following your conventions and branching model.

Docker images built once and deployed unchanged to staging and production, with a scripted rollback that we have actually rehearsed. 'It worked on staging' stops being a mystery when the two are byte-identical apart from configuration.

A single well-defined sync — orders out, stock in — is usually three to six weeks including testing against your ERP's real data. What stretches it is never the code: it is waiting for credentials, for a test system, or for someone to decide what happens when two systems disagree about a price.

For integration work — many connections, lots of waiting on other systems, JSON in and out — Node fits well, and TypeScript gives us one language across back end and React front end. Honestly though: any of those four would do the job. The stack matters far less than whether the people maintaining it know it. If your team lives in PHP, that is an argument we take seriously.

That is the right worry, and it decides more than the technology choice does. Options: we keep it on a maintenance retainer, your team learns enough TypeScript to be useful — the syntax is a weekend, the runtime model a few weeks — or we build it in PHP instead. What does not work is a Node service nobody in-house can read and no contract covering it.

Jobs stay in the queue instead of vanishing, the service restarts itself, and failed messages land in a dead-letter queue you can replay once the cause is fixed. Alerting goes to whoever is on call — which, unless you buy a support contract with agreed response times, is you. We make that boundary explicit before go-live, not after the first bad night.

Almost certainly not. Two or three Node services with a queue run happily on a single Docker host with a managed database, and that setup can be understood by one person at midnight. Kubernetes only earns its complexity at a scale most B2B companies never reach. If someone proposes a cluster for three containers, ask which problem it solves.