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Startups Using Express.js in Boston

Via their job posts and information submitted by startups themselves, these are the Boston Express.js startups we've found.

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Commercial insurance search engine.

Tech Stack Highlights

Keen.io – Keen.io plays an essential role for us in user and application analytics. Our user facing and internal application event tracking dashboards are built on top of keen events. We utilize both client-side and Node.js libraries for event tracking and management.

Firebase/AngularFire – Firebase and AngularFire are used in the front end to create a dynamic, real-time user-interface, and to support user authentication.

Gitlab – We use a self-hosted gitlab instance running on Ubuntu for source code control and release management.

Node.js/Express – Node.js and Express are used for a variety of background services including job running and our REST API.

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Carbon fiber / multimaterial 3D printer. Allowing printing of higher-strength parts.

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“Patheer is an on-demand SaaS platform for organizations to grow, advance, and retain employees by raising awareness of internal career development and advancement opportunities.”

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Turnkey bike rental platform for closed communities like “condo and apartment complexes, colleges, hotels and even corporate campuses”.

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Sports analytics video content & media services.

Tech Stack Highlights

Java – We use java for our core backend and middleware needs. We use it for data mining large volumes of player tracking data and for an in memory business intelligence engine.

MySQL and PostgreSQL – We use both relational DB’s in various products. They’re used in fairly similar and traditional ways. We’ve let teams pick the DB they’re more comfortable with for each app. We’ve used PostgreSQL mostly for storing user data and MySQL mostly for persisting our analytics warehouse.

NodeJS – We use Express/NodeJS for our front end web servers. This allows us to take advantage of sharing clientside and serverside code.

Polymer – We use Polymer and Web Components to help modularize our UI. This is relatively new for us, with the goal of increasing maintainability, reusability, and reduced development time.

React Native – We use react currently for iOS development. We chose React so that when we also create an android app that will be quick and still feel native on each mobile plaform.

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