> The lack of typing leads to way more maintenance Surely you are joking, maintenance is THE downside of the node ecosystem if I had to pick the biggest one.

> The lack of typing leads to way more maintenance Surely you are joking, maintenance is THE downside of the node ecosystem if I had to pick the biggest one. At work we have a roughly 50/50 Rails/React app but on the maintenance side though it's 20% Rails / 80% React. The package churn in the node ecosystem is absolutely insane and just keeping up with it is almost a full time job. And to add even more to the maintenance burden, on the node world the packages are rarely tested well (if at all), you are building on moving sand and theoretically you would need even more testing than in the Rails part to compensate that. I'm not saying Rails has the best maintenance story, far from it but it's not nearly as bad as anything JS based.