> I don't think the NPM ecosystem is as valuable as people think it is
I generally think the NPM ecosystem is pretty cool, but I have noticed that even simple stuff like creating a RESTful service doesn't seem to have stablised in the ways I would have expected given node's target audience, and you end up writing a lot of the boilerplate yourself. Hopefully this will result in hundreds of replies telling me how I should be doing it, but even the fact that it's not trivial to find that out is a sign of a fragmented ecosystem.
I generally think the NPM ecosystem is pretty cool, but I have noticed that even simple stuff like creating a RESTful service doesn't seem to have stablised in the ways I would have expected given node's target audience, and you end up writing a lot of the boilerplate yourself. Hopefully this will result in hundreds of replies telling me how I should be doing it, but even the fact that it's not trivial to find that out is a sign of a fragmented ecosystem.