Try using less things... How about just using Node and Mongo, and building the rest yourself? Node being in its infancy is a pretty good reason in itself to no

Try using less things... How about just using Node and Mongo, and building the rest yourself? Node being in its infancy is a pretty good reason in itself to not tie yourself to the frameworks which are likewise infantile. I've got several production back-ends and a full-stack e-commerce site running with Node and MySQL only.