Same experience as the author. Tons of reinventing the wheel, and hundreds of dependencies. The majority of established companies that say they use Node in pro

Same experience as the author. Tons of reinventing the wheel, and hundreds of dependencies. The majority of established companies that say they use Node in production are doing so as a fancy proxy. All the "serious" stuff is done on backend services written in other languages. Moreover, asynchrony is a concept far more advanced than most people think. We will likely continue to leverage Node as a fancy proxy. Adding Typescript will only help. But it's likely that as Node grows into a mature platform, other platforms will continue to fill in the gaps that Node filled. See for example Node constantly adding [foo]Sync versions of methods, while Python adds first class sync support.