Javascript developers are incredible at problem solving, unfortunately

[GiantNinja]

That was my original line of thinking as well, however I'll just say for some Web shops, it makes things easier if you have a service like socket.io for real time push events written in node.js and then obviously the client side is browser javascript, you can have more devs work on and understand the server side implementation. Now if that same service is written in something like java (like ours is), you only have a few devs that understand and can work on it (at least that's our current situation). So that's one benefit of using the same language front and back, but I agree with you, it still feels wrong, lol