&gt;  I don&#x27;t think most people working on Node want a Rails equivalent<p>It wouldn&#x27;t really be possible anyway. Async programming is hard and the shortcuts one can take with synchronous Ruby are impossible with Async Javascript. Nodejs has a &quot;fibers&quot; lib though , but it doesn&#x27;t look like it is widely popular, but AFAIK it is the only to truly abstract async programming.