Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by “…extended toward the backend”?

IMO all the extra flavoring on the front end comes from everyone having their own approach to modeling UIs and managing state for UIs. I don’t see anything similar on the backend - HTTP server packages seem mostly similar, data access packages seem to be a fairly small/thin layer.

I’m not deep into the node ecosystem, help me see how Ben & Jerry have contributed to the backend :-D