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IMHO the article misses at least one important thing: Microservice architecture.

I see Node.js/JavaScript in the backend most often used in microservice architectures where the applications are mostly trivial and the Node.js developers are at most in the middle of the experience spectrum.

Thing is, for every single microservice it is easier to just implement it with some libraries than to learn a proper framework, and the hype cicles in Node.js are so short, that developers never experience real proficiency with a library.

In combination, after having used Node.js in the backend, I will never touch it again for backend work, unless a lot of things change in the community and tooling. I am much happier and sane using Spring or Django.