[kopirgan]

Very interested in this too.. not clear at what point something like Postgres will become necessary.

Just writing a simple hello world in node/express downloads a gazillion dependencies and code that'll all be points of failure or mystery for lack of understanding. To understand them all to be able to write non trivial stuff is likely no different from doing httpd in c on Linux.

I've done stuff in go and it makes it lot easier to code.