Hehe, came back 4 hours later to see that quite a few people have answered your question :) In regards to doing a typical CRUD app: I don't think there's a huge amount of work in that area yet. Geddy (http://geddyjs.org/) is a rails-esque framework, but it looks a bit stale, considering that it's only had 5 commits since the beginning of the year. I never used it though, so it might just be that it's rather feature -complete, and the developer is just being cautious about pushing to the master repo on github.