node.js‘s popularity isn’t without it’s reasons. node.js is lightweight, it’s mature and it has enough packages in the npm repository to make you start wondering if you’ll ever learn enough tools to become a half decent developer.

If you know JavaScript, you just need to know a bit about the node.js event loop and the node.js standard library and maybe express and you’re pretty much a decent node.js developer.

But it’s definitely not without it’s drawbacks.