Node.js (ie server-side Javascript) will live and die with client-side Javascript. Right now we seem to be in a client-side JS boom. New frameworks are being

Node.js (ie server-side Javascript) will live and die with client-side Javascript. Right now we seem to be in a client-side JS boom. New frameworks are being written, adoption is up, React and friends are getting tons of buzz, build tools like webpack or transpilers like babel are making developer lives easier, NPM is seeing tons of traffic (much of it supporting client-side development, either directly or indirectly), we're starting to routinely prerender SPAs on the server, etc., And it all runs on node.js. (Good luck writing a serious React app without some node.js processes running at some point.) So I'd say we've yet to see peak node.js; it's still increasing in usage, and will likely do so for some time. Now, some people made some wild claims about node.js being the BEST EVER SERVER FRAMEWORK, with super amazing webscale performance. That was nonsense and lies. Node.js was never going going to sweep the world and be the One True Framework for writing servers in, and that's becoming increasingly apparent. It's not a terrible choice, but then, neither is Rails. Or C#. Or Python. Or hell, PHP. And people are going to keep writing servers in all of those languages and frameworks. If you listen to the hype, we went from Node.js being the BEST FOR PERFORMANCE to, I dunno, golang or something. And going from being the BEST to not even being talked about probably feels like a real decline. In the real world, Node.js went from a new and little used niche technology, to a slightly less new and very broadly used niche technology. That's not a decline at all.