You should try. I come from a traditional Java shop, and a year ago wouldn't have thought of doing anything serious with Node JS. Today, I do front-end React s

You should try. I come from a traditional Java shop, and a year ago wouldn't have thought of doing anything serious with Node JS. Today, I do front-end React stuff as well as back-end servers with Node JS. I have been happy with it so far. With some type-system like Flow or TypeScript, you can manage huge projects in Node JS. I happen to like the community, CLI tools written in Node, and the plethora of open source libraries built on top of Node. This also has a downside. Your libraries can get outdated quite fast, you would have to keep up with new language syntaxes etc., and remember which syntax is supported by which version of Node etc. But so far, I think Node is headed in the right direction.