[Jensson]

> The question really is: - Is .NET or any other framework so called "battery included" ?

Basically every other web stack is "battery included" compared to node.js. It is the only framework having this problem as far as I know. Rails, Django, the java frameworks, net etc, all of them have basically everything you need out of the box.

[hidden-spyder]

Why did it become so popular and well adopted if that was the case?

[josephcsible]

Because a bunch of developers already knew JavaScript from frontend work, and node.js meant that they didn't have to bother learning any other languages to do backend work too.