Hard to out my finger on a single reason for it but I prefer it for hobby projects. Part of the reason is I am already using node for tooling for the front end

Hard to out my finger on a single reason for it but I prefer it for hobby projects. Part of the reason is I am already using node for tooling for the front end. It is less powerful than say C# for example in multitasking - but for hobby projects that rarely matters. Typescript makes a big difference. There is a lot of community support: stackoverflow, npm packages etc. Every SDK has a JS version. It is fast enough for my needs. NextJS is another good reason.