My thinking was that the documentation isn't nearly as strong for Node as it is for Django. And also JavaScript doesn't have all the same libraries for the backend. But certainly being good at JavaScript is very highly valued in the marketplace right now, so if you have other technical friends who can help you then this might make sense. But they might literally need to be willing to spend a couple dozen hours sitting next to you while you're learning Node, which isn't always trivial to set up. But in general I'd still recommend just learning Python, because I think the advantages of knowing you'll be successful outweigh whatever extra work there might be.