Node.js web development agency
Node.js web development agency in Athens.
TWENTYONE is a Node.js web development agency in Athens. We build the back ends behind websites, e-commerce and mobile apps in Node.js and PostgreSQL — the APIs, the integrations and the business logic that have to be right every time. 19 years of custom web development.
Why Node.js
Why Node.js web development
Node.js put JavaScript on the server and removed the oldest tax in web development: two languages, two teams, and a translation layer between them where the bugs live. With Node.js web development, validation rules, pricing logic and types are written once and used on both sides.
It is also built for the work a modern product actually does — thousands of connections waiting on a database, a payment provider or an ERP at the same time. Node handles that concurrency on a single thread, without the memory cost of a thread per request, which is why Netflix, PayPal, LinkedIn, Uber and eBay run on it.
And it has the largest ecosystem in software. Whatever you need to integrate — a payment provider, an ERP, a courier — a maintained, tested client usually exists already, so the budget goes on your product rather than on plumbing.
What we build
The part of the product nobody sees
- APIs
- REST and typed APIs designed as the product's interface, not the website's — so the web platform and the iOS and Android apps are two clients of one system that already works.
- Integrations
- Two-way, real-time connections to ERP, warehouse, accounting, courier and payment systems, with retries and reconciliation for the day one of them is down.
- Real-time platforms
- Availability, pricing and booking that change by the second, notifications, live dashboards and the queues behind them.
- Payments and accounts
- Checkout, refunds, invoicing and user accounts, where a transaction either completes or does not — there is no state where money was taken and an order was not written.
- Admin and back office
- The tools your own team uses every day — orders, content, customers, reports — built on the same API rather than beside it.
The stack
Node.js web development with TypeScript and PostgreSQL
TypeScript throughout, so the shape of every request and response is checked before it ships. PostgreSQL underneath, because a system that holds orders, customers and money needs a database that refuses impossible data rather than trusting every line of code that touches it.
On the front, React.js web development in Next.js shares those same types with the server, so the website cannot disagree with the API. On the phone, React Native mobile app development does the same — one set of rules, three places it is enforced.
Reliability
Built for the day something else fails
Most outages in a web product start somewhere else: a payment provider times out, an ERP goes down for maintenance, a courier's API changes a field. Node.js web development done properly assumes that — every external call has a timeout, a retry and a record, and nothing is lost when a partner is slow.
Deployed with monitoring, backups and zero-downtime releases from the first version, so shipping is routine rather than an event, and the first person to know about a problem is us rather than your customer.
How we work
How a Node.js web development project runs
- Briefing
- You tell us what you are building, what exists already and what is in the way. We reply within two working days — with questions, or with the honest answer that you do not need us.
- Blueprint
- Scope, architecture, the stack and a fixed plan, agreed before a line of code is written. You know what is being built, in what order and why.
- Build
- The API, the database and the integrations built in Node.js, TypeScript and PostgreSQL, tested against the real systems they connect to. Working software every week or two, on a staging address you can open, rather than a reveal at the end.
- Launch and after
- Release, monitoring and a named team that stays. The code, the design files and the data are yours.
The record
A Node.js web development agency for brands that cannot go down
19 years of work for brands including COSMOTE, Piraeus, Avène, MARKET IN, SCORPIOS, TRVL AIR and NEXTCOMMERCE — national-scale platforms and e-commerce systems integrated with the software that runs the business behind them.
The back end is never a separate supplier's problem: the same team builds the interface on top of it, so a change to one is planned with the other.
Common questions
- What does a Node.js web development agency do?
- It builds the server side of web and mobile products in Node.js: APIs, integrations with other systems, payments, accounts and real-time features. TWENTYONE, in Athens, builds Node.js back ends with TypeScript and PostgreSQL for websites, e-commerce and iOS and Android apps.
- Is Node.js good for large applications?
- Yes. Node.js runs production systems at Netflix, PayPal, LinkedIn, Uber and eBay. It handles high concurrency efficiently because it is designed around waiting on databases and external services, which is most of what a web back end does.
- Can one Node.js API serve both the website and the mobile app?
- It should. When the API is designed as the product's interface rather than the website's, the iOS and Android apps become a second client of the same system, sharing types and validation with the web platform so the two cannot drift apart.
- Can you integrate Node.js with our ERP?
- Yes. TWENTYONE builds two-way, real-time integrations between Node.js platforms and ERP, warehouse, accounting, courier and payment systems, including the retry and reconciliation logic for when one of them is unavailable.
- Why PostgreSQL with Node.js?
- PostgreSQL enforces transactions, constraints and relationships, so a payment and its order are written together or not at all. It also handles JSON, full-text search and geospatial queries, so most products never need a second database.
Also from the studio
Further reading
Initiate the blueprint
Tell us what you are building.
The stack, the timeline, the thing that is currently in the way. We reply to every briefing within two working days.