The tooling is now awesome (imho). I am the furthest thing from a node.js fanboy, but as a build pipeline it is awesome. Being able to have a gulpfile take car

The tooling is now awesome (imho). I am the furthest thing from a node.js fanboy, but as a build pipeline it is awesome. Being able to have a gulpfile take care of compiling jade, coffeescript and sass, triggering live reloads, etc., immediately makes me smile. As a former-Flex developer who dealt with some heinous build-times because the tooling was worth it, I now have a better front-end alternative with sub-quarter-second build times. And if you have a json-serving backend (rails, spray.io, whatever) you can set up easy double tests of your front-end logic, where you mock out the backend, and then run slower "integration" tests where you include it. Might sound wacky but I've found this to be a way to quickly develop robust systems. For me, angular's dependency-injection makes it even easier. So this static-koolaid took a while for me to drink, but I'm liking it more all the time.