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Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by hackerfromthefu on Sunday February 21, 2021 @07:26AM (#26212981)
It's generally high maintenance, npm dependencies, deprecations, leftpad, javascript new shiny culture etc

You can make it work with more maintenance, but you did ask the question what's wrong with it!

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Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by chrisco255 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @03:04PM (#26216607)
It's really not high maintenance at all. Leftpad issue was fixed in less than hours the same day it happened and since then the NPM tooling for package management has improved a great deal.

JS shiny new culture doesn't really exist on the back end (and even front end js has calmed down in recent years). Express.js, the go-to framework 7 years ago, is still the go-to framework on Node today.

Node and Mongo are at this point "boring tech". Their limitations and trade-offs are well known, their benefits are also well-established, and their APIs and tooling have matured.

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