Node's like, one of the worst choices, due to the idiotic package manager. They ship essentially every function call as a separate package. It's actually a thing to take a dependency on "sha1" and literally pull in a package just for that one bit.

Using Node/Grunt/Bower to build a straightforward run end site (just to compile static outputs) required npm installing over 13 thousand files. Now imagine on a build server, starting clean, each time? Yeah, it takes a very long time just to download that stuff or do anything with it. Insane.

And at the end of it all, it's just JavaScript on the server, like ASP did in the 90s. With a cumbersome async API. OK.