Ask HN: Is using Node.js overkill for a SaaS CRUD app?

Use whatever technology you are the most productive in.

I use Tornado for standard CRUD apps. Why not Django or Flask? Because I have a boilerplate Tornado repo sitting there for the majority of CRUD apps. Use what ever you're most productive in as a developer and nothing else matters.

Productivity matter all the more so if you're the sole developer on a time sensitive project.

Standard CRUD app matches the Rails model better.

Node is good match for an API-centric, frontend heavy app.

But like the other guy says, it really comes down to what language you're fastest in / prefer / have access to developers for.

node.js is the best tool for this job. a PHP/Rails/Django framework can get you there as well but you'll have to worry about code deduplication and slowness associated with translating pieces of language from one to another, especially if this is UI heavy.