Good point about tech vs framework. Node isn't opinionated, to borrow a UI term. I was really happy when I was able to stop using Bluebird and switch to JS pro

Good point about tech vs framework. Node isn't opinionated, to borrow a UI term. I was really happy when I was able to stop using Bluebird and switch to JS promises, and formal async/await in JS was a game changer: it cleans up code significantly. It is hard to use languages that don't have async/await now that my brain has become so habitualized. However, I'm a little bummed currying was effectively nixed (or just ugly) with JS module imports; require() had an edge there.