I would say the bar for Express is much lower than that, but on the other hand JS doesn't yet have a great equivalent to Django/Rails/etc. In Express you're wir

I would say the bar for Express is much lower than that, but on the other hand JS doesn't yet have a great equivalent to Django/Rails/etc. In Express you're wiring up routes and middleware and database calls yourself, not declaring a model and getting things for free; it's lower-level.