It makes me feel a little ill to think of all the new-ish devs jumping on the Node train, thinking it&#x27;s the Next Big Thing in server code. It&#x27;s a cool technology, and incredibly easy to get into, but then the curve gets so very steep as you try to make it behave like any of the robust and fundamentally sound language&#x2F;framework app development ecosystems.<p>If I could offer any advice to anyone who is relatively new to all this, I would say choose anything else: Ruby&#x2F;Rails, PHP&#x2F;Symfony, Python&#x2F;Django, Java&#x2F;Spring, C#&#x2F;.NET, whatever. You&#x27;ll be doing yourself a favor. Learn how to do things correctly, in an tech stack that actually exists and works properly and makes sense, then see where things stand for JS on the server in a couple years. The bad habits, mistaken assumptions, and rampant misinformation being spread in the JS world these days is just amazing.