You should try ClojureScript. Much simpler tooling (native tooling on top of Google Closure), nice integration of server and client side code. We are not quite

You should try ClojureScript. Much simpler tooling (native tooling on top of Google Closure), nice integration of server and client side code. We are not quite at the point of using NodeJs on the backend normally (and honestly the JVM is 100x better) but you can share the language. You want get a django or rails like app at the moment.