[kaustavha]

I'd say check out sails.js, it mimics the mvc pattern of rails, and coffeescript instead of js since the syntax is cleaner and would be more familiar. (https://www.npmjs.com/package/sails-generate-new-coffee) <- may be helpful. Additionally, check out yeoman, which mimics the generate commands provided by thor and yeoman generators help you scaffold out apps. Theres the learn from scratch approach if you have a lot of time and want to appear smart, and then theres the ;i need to build something working right away approach', which i like more. Programming is all about abstraction, why bother with the low level apis when you can just use the shiny wrappers and save time. I used the MEAN stack for a long time, enjoyed it, relatively easy to use, and has come a long way since then(we did actually have to fix bugs in the framework in the start).

When youre more familiar you can roll your own cutting edge framework, maybe use koa, write a yeoman generator, fancy non-relational databases like couchDB. Learning to recite APIs as one comment pointed out will actually help you understand good api design, and give you a working idea of how theyre wired usually, allowing you to ramp up faster on a new framework than if you jut knew vanlla js and individual components. IMO. Sorry for any spelling errors, temporarily on a samsung v1 chromebook, things appear a few seconds after i type and the internet is hard to use while listening to music