I would go with libsodium.js (which binds to the native C library in Node.js) if you just need to encrypt/decrypt in general, especially if you anticipate build

I would go with libsodium.js (which binds to the native C library in Node.js) if you just need to encrypt/decrypt in general, especially if you anticipate building out other cryptographic features in the future. If you need AES in particular, node-forge is probably fine, although from a quick glance it looks almost identical to Node's built-in crypto API, in which case you could just use that, but they both look pretty inconvenient (excessively low-level) to use directly.