Been using nodejs for a rest API. It may be the old fart in me, but I'm regretting using it instead of a normal static typed language. I hope something changes my mind soon, or I'll go through a case of sunken cost fallacy.

You could use typescript with it. But yeah, overall the node ecosystem isn't amazing if you come from more robust ecosystems.

Node.js alone is all good for prototyping, but for robustness you'll need more tooling, unfortunately.
*bird chirps about Deno* Oh, right, there it is, better noDe!

I'm using typescript but it still seems to be lacking. I guess it feels... brittle? Like I need a hundred packages to make it so a string is a string, and stuff isn't a big security hole. Again I'm very new to it, I know basically nothing yet. But that's how it feels so far. On the other hand, I get the impression that it'll turn out ok anyway. Can't wait to start writing my tests.