I recently built a search engine backend for our rock climbing database. Web dev is new to me (I'm an iOS dev primarily). From all the stuff I've read on hn I chose to write a typescript api that uses Zapatos to interface with a postgres db and I could not be happier with it (for the most part - node errors can be vague and disconnected due to async/await but perhaps I've not figured that part out yet).

Writing typescript is a real pleasure once I figured out the incantations necessary for the tsconfig and package.json files, and Zapatos allows pretty elegant composition of sql fragments that can all be typesafe and injection proof. The way Zapatos can type the return of complex sql seems like magic.

As an outsider I'd say im a fan of what I've seen of the current js ecosystem, although I'm only talking backend stuff, no idea about frontend.