Node is great if you want to utilize npm modules. My recent projects have been built on a Node server. I like to use knexjs as an ORM, sometimes including book

Node is great if you want to utilize npm modules. My recent projects have been built on a Node server. I like to use knexjs as an ORM, sometimes including bookshelfjs for model building. Cacheing or rather message queuing has been done with redis. Often, this backend server will feed a much smaller front end web server that leans on react and jsx to spit out HTML. PS I started out with rails but moved to a primarily node stack last year.