Original Author here, I agree that it while it could be argued that express/mongo is more "fundamental" or low level than a stack like rails + mysql, I'd also a

Original Author here, I agree that it while it could be argued that express/mongo is more "fundamental" or low level than a stack like rails + mysql, I'd also argue that because its lower level, it could act as a barrier to learning. Having to wire together a database adapter with an ORM before being able to save data seems like a tall task to someone just starting out.