Honestly, if you don't want to use JS on the server side then you should not. There are plenty of very good alternatives. I think Elm is to address the issue t

Honestly, if you don't want to use JS on the server side then you should not. There are plenty of very good alternatives. I think Elm is to address the issue that JS is the only thing that runs in a browser. With that said, I suppose you could use it with Node as well.