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I don't think being able to write some simple SQL makes you a 10x developer. I think it's normal. The way I prefer to see it is relying on ORMs makes you a weak developer.

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This is about how fast someone experienced in Rails/Django/Drupal/Laravel could get a basic CRUD app up and running vs. a JS framework.

If you're familiar with setting up a basic express app, and kind of know how you like to do things, can prob set up another one pretty quickly. None of the ORM's prob as mature on node (last i checked) but still not a huge amount of friction if you already know one.

Node will prob take longer if you're taking time to try out [new hotness lib of the day], though.

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