Depends what you mean by other server side platforms. What does it compete with? Node.js isn't a web framework so it doesn't compete with Django, Rails, ASP.Ne

Depends what you mean by other server side platforms. What does it compete with? Node.js isn't a web framework so it doesn't compete with Django, Rails, ASP.Net, PHP etc. I generally consider it a tool for building web services, which it's great at. For example: I've got Node.js servers which host JSON APIs calling Postgres stored procs on a Django app because it's faster than going through Django when you've worked out the interfaces.