While there is no arguing the pitfalls of dealing with Javascript. As a one man team, to build a product with the same language on the backend, that I've alread

While there is no arguing the pitfalls of dealing with Javascript. As a one man team, to build a product with the same language on the backend, that I've already been using on the front end. Is awesome. The ability to fire up a Node.js project on a server is even easier than a PHP one, which is arguably why PHP took off in the first place. And like you mentioned, I think the NPM system is awesome, super easy to use, and a voracious community. Sure there is TONS of not nice things about JS, but it's slowly evolving to be better(ES6 + Promises), and it's not going anywhere anytime soon.