Have you tried adonisjs (https://adonisjs.com)? It is the "node version" of Laravel. I find it very easy to use, especially as coding is not my main career.
I like it a lot and I do think it is the best backend option for node at the moment. I really think it has great potential.
But i also think it is still not there. It’s missing a lot of things when you compare it to Laravel itself, the documentation is not as great and the community is still near non existent. In the Laravel world there are a ton of top quality third party packages for example. There are very few for Adonis and they don’t have a certain future imho.
Worst part is that it is 99% developed by a single person and if that person burns out or for some reason is not able to work anymore on it, you’re screwed. This is pretty important and I don’t think this is a problem with Laravel or rails, as there are huge companies using it and a lot of contributors.
But I really look forward to a world where Adonis becomes as popular.
