Just because I think you'll find this useful (and not because I want to denigrate Node, which I think is great tech, especially with the upgrades in this announcement), have you seen Phoenix[0]? Despite immaturity, I think it is already close to being in Node's league as a back-end for websockets, but seems to have a philosophy you may enjoy more. That is, it reminds me a lot more of Rails and Django than anything in Node. (I also think Elixir is awesome to work with, but that's somewhat beside the point.)

[0]: http://www.phoenixframework.org/