&gt; Good point, and I&#x27;ve seen this stuff referenced before, so perhaps my comment above is a little over-stated.<p>No worries. My main criticism is that the <i>author&#x27;s</i> position (that big companies aren&#x27;t relying on JS) was over-stated (or vacuously true, if we&#x27;re being charitable).<p>&gt; And I just get the feeling that a lot of people who are spreading the Node Word are misunderstanding some of the facts on the ground.<p>That wouldn&#x27;t surprise me<p>&gt; On that note,, where&#x27;s the Django or Rails or .NET or Spring of Node Land?<p>I don&#x27;t know much about ReactJS, but it&#x27;s my understanding that you can switch between client-side and server-side templating in a way that&#x27;s transparent to the developer. That&#x27;s probably the closest thing you&#x27;ll find to Spring.<p>There&#x27;s also Jade (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jade-lang.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jade-lang.com&#x2F;</a>), but that&#x27;s not a framework.