Node.js: the good, the bad, the ugly - why the hell would you use it?

I'm fairly new to web development, but I've been thinking about starting a Node.js project backed by a PostgreSQL database lately. I was planning on using express to create an API of some sort to do all the database queries and return relevant information in JSON, then create the website front-end with something like Angular and have it just communicate with the API returning the JSON. Is there a better approach?

You are right there, implying the use of ORMs as data mappers or active records, as that's a standard thing today. Doing raw database access is a thing most of devs would like to avoid these days as we have those better and proven patterns at hand. Still, I agree with your comment that it should be stated more clearly it's ORMs...