I use node-ts. Why? I have access to every library I will need from any provider or for any task like phone number validation.

Node is fast enough, easy to develop, deploy, and scale. Anything that is slow can be ported to Go.

It is easy to find solutions to my immediate problems using LLMs.

I’m just using express and my data layer consists of neo4j and qdrant. All code is single responsibility and I use layered architecture. Easy to test and feed in to AI.

I used to work in rails, mostly to port existing code to Go or node. I found it way too messy and complicated, and our codebase was awful. I am in the minority though as I know many love rails.