Domains were Node's answer to that, and it seemed to work pretty well. I adopted the approach for my own web framework (not JS based) and it has been an extreme

Domains were Node's answer to that, and it seemed to work pretty well. I adopted the approach for my own web framework (not JS based) and it has been an extremely useful abstraction. They're soft-deprecated in Node now though, and AFAICT work on a replacement has stalled. https://nodejs.org/api/domain.html https://nodejs.org/api/domain.html