> Good point, and I've seen this stuff referenced before, so perhaps my comment above is a little over-stated. No worries. My main criticism is that the author

> Good point, and I've seen this stuff referenced before, so perhaps my comment above is a little over-stated. No worries. My main criticism is that the author's position (that big companies aren't relying on JS) was over-stated (or vacuously true, if we're being charitable). > 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. That wouldn't surprise me > On that note,, where's the Django or Rails or .NET or Spring of Node Land? I don't know much about ReactJS, but it's my understanding that you can switch between client-side and server-side templating in a way that's transparent to the developer. That's probably the closest thing you'll find to Spring. There's also Jade (http://jade-lang.com/ http://jade-lang.com/), but that's not a framework.