I feel like if you use a lightweight node&#x2F;express setup, you feel really productive because you&#x27;re spending a lot of time coding, but you&#x27;re actually far less productive than someone who uses an actual full fledged server side development framework (Rails&#x2F;Django). For toy projects I do enjoy node, but if I was throwing myself into a startup, I&#x27;d use Rails without hesitation.