A Cloud-Native Framework for Scalable Web Applications Using React, Node.js, and Event-Driven Microservices
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The current web applications are supposed to provide high output, scalability and consistency besides facilitating rapid development and ongoing evolution. Such requirements have prompted the mass adoption of cloud-native architecture, component-based frontends and microservice-based backends. This review provides an in-depth analysis of a scaled-up web application framework based on React, Node.js and event-driven microservices that is focused on a cloud-native development. The paper summarizes current literature on frontend architecture, backend run-time, and asynchronous communication model to develop a coherent theoretical model. The literature provides comparative experimental evidence on analysis to determine performance in terms of throughput, latency, scalability and fault tolerance. The findings suggest that event-driven microservices are very effective in increasing the scalability and resilience of the system whereas the React-based frontends are useful in enhancing responsiveness and user experience.The review ends with the consideration of main challenges and the description of the future research directions of observability, consistency, and new cloud-native paradigms.
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