> and yet every resource a newcomer to programming (on the Node.js ecosystem at least) recommends using MongoDB with Mongoose (an ORM for a NoSQL database? Why?

> and yet every resource a newcomer to programming (on the Node.js ecosystem at least) recommends using MongoDB with Mongoose (an ORM for a NoSQL database? Why?) It's because it's easy. Who cares about thinking? Just throw your data into Mongo and it'll work (For your toy project where nothing matters). It's sad to see that there's such a massive lack of the type of attitude described in this article: https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html.