&gt; As for no recommend approach - that&#x27;s deliberate. I don&#x27;t think most people working on Node want a Rails equivalent<p>This is a useful way to understand what Node is. Node&#x27;s core API is for building any sort of network service: A DNS server, an SMTP server, HTTP server, socket listener, etc. and so it applies to a wide and varied set of problems. Rails is for building a very specific type of database-backed web application.