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I've looked at Nitrogen a couple times, but I haven't had a project to try it out on yet.

It looks really neat but also very websockety... I like to build websites/webapps that are enhanced but have sane (if sometimes clunky) fallbacks for users who aren't running JavaScript. How hard is it to shoehorn such fallbacks into a Nitrogen project?

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It is indeed very websockety. While it is a server-side rendering framework, it relies heavily on javascript and websockets (or fallback to ajax, if websockets aren't available).

However, there isn't a built-in mechanism to handle a client who simply doesn't have javascript enabled at all. Interfaces could be built with traditional HTML forms, but I understand that's not the same thing.

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