Though I like React, I agree with the rest of your points. I've done small-ish projects in Node. There's tons of ways to do JavaScript that your IDE's static a

Though I like React, I agree with the rest of your points. I've done small-ish projects in Node. There's tons of ways to do JavaScript that your IDE's static analyzers will not like. If you use IIFEs extensively, most of it will not be auto-completed for you. Needeless to say, same thing goes for function signatures -- good luck quickly getting through the parameters and their order (note: it's possible this has changed in the last 12 months). I like JS well enough -- the functional aspect of strings, arrays, etc. But IDE support is lacking and it makes it hard to retain control as the codebase grows.