I completely agree. I'd stick with Rails or opt for Elixir, Clojure, or maybe Go instead. I'm balls-deep in the Node.js ecosystem and the only reason I would ch

I completely agree. I'd stick with Rails or opt for Elixir, Clojure, or maybe Go instead. I'm balls-deep in the Node.js ecosystem and the only reason I would choose it over Rails or the others is because of React + TypeScript. React is by far my favorite 'templating language' and TypeScript makes JS pretty decent. Basically, if I can get away with it I'd go for Phoenix+Elixir, followed by Clojure/ClojureScript. If I can't, I'd go for Rails. If for whatever reason that isn't an option, C# or Java. Node inhabits this weird in-between world that doesn't offer quite enough of anything, and has some serious drawbacks.