CRUD is trivial in general, and pretty easy to implement even with the Node.js built-in HTTP library. A more complex API is probably where Rails or Phoenix sta

CRUD is trivial in general, and pretty easy to implement even with the Node.js built-in HTTP library. A more complex API is probably where Rails or Phoenix start to make sense, but there's no reason why an HTTP library and a database aren't enough for basic CRUD. Someone who doesn't see CRUD as fundamentally trivial probably hasn't been programming very long.