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by zelly 2205 days ago
The fact that 90% of your code (i.e., business logic sans OS) can run in a Chrome Dev Tools window is pretty powerful. There really isn't anything that competes except PHP on a LAMP server in 2007. The ease of "getting started" is a big part of the network effect and the number of npm packages out there. Yes, the quality of those packages is terrible, but you don't find that out right away.