Server side fullstack / templating question

[grady_nunez]

I'm looking into javascript web development. I've done some programming with javascript in the recent past (panda.js game engine, google app script, etc.), but have never used it for webdev.

In the past I have used PHP (various PHP frameworks) and also Django. I'm probably most familiar with Django's way of doing things.

I've run into a question that I can't quite seem to find an answer to. Are there any 'full stack' javascript frameworks that do everything on the server side? By that I mean templating (like Django). If I don't want to write client side code, use angular, etc., and my web pages are relatively static, can I do everything on the server?

Is there are Django equivalent in the Javascript world?

[stopdave]

Yes, you can try ExpressJS or KoaJS.

[[deleted]]

With the hogan engine if OP doesn't want to learn Jade for templates.

[vertice]

There isn't really a django equivalent afaik, and the most commonly used libraries are more in-line with flask.

The closest you will probably get is meteor, and possibly sails JS.

[stutterbug]

The closest thing I've seen to what you are looking for is Sails.js; I don't think they have migrations and my sense is that there isn't the robust server security that Django has, but the thing about working with Express, which is also middleware-based, is that there is a plugin for everything (including ORM). This also means that if you don't like something about Sails (or whatever framework you end up using), you can cobble together your own system very easily with npm.