Well, hot reload of code is not enabled in Node.js because it is so easy to accidentally end up with memory leaks or multiple copies of objects that aren't being garbage collected. Node.js is all about making your apps incredibly fast, not leaky. In a production environment, you are likely to have multiple production servers serving the requests and a load balancer like nginx on the front. Using Forever or PM2 is totally sufficient in my opinion. They monitor your app and restart the server whenever it crashes. This reload time may be somewhat significant if you are doing some heavy task on boot-up. But you shouldn't worry as you already have another server processing requests. So, your app should function as normal. I would suggest you to look at how you guys can create a distributed app with multiple servers serving the requests. This kind of arrangement along with Forever/PM2 is sufficient, imo.

I would like to add my 2 cents here. According to me Cassandra is different in the following ways : Cassandra is a distributed key/value store where keys and values can be anything. The focus is more on making writes faster, so if you are storing data with key/value structure, it can work really well. If you don't want massive scalability, then MongoDB may probably be a better choice. But if you do want great scalability, Cassandra's no-single-point-of-failure architecture will be really helpful. MongoDB's global write lock can be painful at times. In Cassandra you get more fine grained control over how replication works in your app. If you are storing JSON data, MongoDB would be a suitable solution because it stores data in bson format. This way querying the data becomes easier for you. Cassandra is written in Java and can store huge datasets in almost SQL. I am not an expert, but it might help you. Thanks.

If you exclude WebStorm, Nuclide.io can be considered as a great IDE to write React apps.

Good programmers comment. They should write code that can be easily understood by other fellow coders. The "pretty obvious" thing is called "over-confidence". Comments always save time.

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ScanMyServer scans various vulnerabilities present in any server. But to use it, you need an online server.

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