Coming from an IIS, .NET, SQL Server background, the simplicity of full-stack javascript from mongo, to node, to angular cannot be overstated. Propagating a cha

Coming from an IIS, .NET, SQL Server background, the simplicity of full-stack javascript from mongo, to node, to angular cannot be overstated. Propagating a change from the front to the back end or vice versa is much easier and faster speaking the same language throughout. Tools like yeoman, grunt, bower makes it that much more pleasant. Libraries like expressjs, mongoose, passportjs, and many more can do a lot of the heavy lifting, taking away some of the pains of writing boilerplate. All and all I'm a fan. I'd love to use angular against firebase only without a node server, but I can't justify the cost.