Node is very handy for high transaction, short transfer, high connection count applications like chat. That's because of the non blocking single thread archite

Node is very handy for high transaction, short transfer, high connection count applications like chat. That's because of the non blocking single thread architecture, low overhead connections, and little bloat (small footprint). However, that doesn't mean it isn't well suited for building a website. You'd probably want to include some add-ons for that though (eg: express). Note that even for realtime chat-like apps you'll probably need some kind of datastore and in fact that example sounds like a great use case for nosql as a datastore.