I think that setting up a test environment is one of the bigger hurdles (it seemd more confusing for JS than for most other languages I used before). Starting w

I think that setting up a test environment is one of the bigger hurdles (it seemd more confusing for JS than for most other languages I used before). Starting with installing node and "node myfile.js" is pretty good to get going (writing hellow world, fizzbuzz etc.). I struggled quite a bit sifting through all the options after that (e.g. npm+Grunt+Browserify to be able to require stuff etc.). Maybe I'm imagining things but the simple "getting started" was quite complex for JS. Or in other words...the first steps are pretty hard imo. The inclusion of Backbone seems a bit odd. Isn't that also frontend-ish (like the pick one of Ember,React,Angular). I'd rather substitute it for Express.