As silly as it sounds, one of my favorite aspects of Node is how ridiculously portable and modular it is. NPM makes everything a breeze, and (thanks to support

As silly as it sounds, one of my favorite aspects of Node is how ridiculously portable and modular it is. NPM makes everything a breeze, and (thanks to support from Microsoft) it actually allows easy development on Windows. I realize plenty of languages have their own package managers, but NPM is fantastic. The callback aspect definitely requires more discipline, but I'm glad that I've learned it.