Comment by moojd

This is a nice overview of modern front-end development but I'm constantly disappointed with what 'web framework' means in node-land. None of these things are strictly necessary when building a web app but authz/authn, user management, databases, server-side logic vs client-side logic, are pretty much always needed. When I see the phrase 'web framework' these are the things I am interested in seeing and they all seem to be treated as afterthoughts in the node community. Most tutorials either point you to paid/proprietary services or to really bad local solutions like back in the hotscripts days of php. If you google 'node user login' the first tutorial has you storing a password in plain text and checking the password with the equivalent of '=='. The first result when googling the same for php, python, and ruby all returned solutions using a hash.