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Do you really think the inability to create anything but an index.php file is the bottleneck?

Those people just use drop-in tools now which are better than custom applications for a large portion of standard use cases.

Bottleneck? Just asking what's the JS equivalent in convenience for deploying a simple project.

It doesn't need to even look like index.php, just needs to be as convenient, ideally?

Drop-in tools? Examples? I was using PHP drop-in tools back in 2004 but I'm not sure if that's what you mean.

Express and it's spiritual successors are the node "hello world" answers you're after, I think.

With node, install express, and run `node index.js` and you have a full blown server.