That has been my observation as well. You can have an express (express was popular at the time I was working with node, not sure whats hot right now) app up in

That has been my observation as well. You can have an express (express was popular at the time I was working with node, not sure whats hot right now) app up in minutes but when it came to adding authentication, dependency injection, unit testing and really making it production ready it took a dozen modules and a lot more of my time. Part of that was just maturity I'm sure but I kind of felt like I was just taking high quality parts and duct taping them together. In .NET (webapi2 that is) it seems like I have a little less choice about what parts to use but they are also made to fit together and do so nicely without a lot of tinkering.