I'm not sure what your point is; of course, you can write JS on top of Node that exposes its functionality with a nice API: that's exactly what Tasklemon is! D

I'm not sure what your point is; of course, you can write JS on top of Node that exposes its functionality with a nice API: that's exactly what Tasklemon is! Did the intro maybe give you the impression that TL was built standalone, instead of on Node?