I would be curious to understand what frameworks people tend to use on top of nodejs (or even react). I have not found a standard devise-like way of implementing authentication in nodejs. The usual recommendation I come across is to develop all from scratch (encryption, emails, session management), using something like Passport, outsource it and pay to some third-party or use a framework like nextauth which is very opinionated and hard to change basic options. It's not uncommon to see people changing between ORM or SQL builders all the time because it's hard to find one that works greatly - it seems like a common discussion online in node communities.

I love TypeScript and would love to use it more extensively, but whenever I start a project, I quickly feel like I'm wasting so much time to do something that I'd hope a) it'd be very quick, and b) there would be some general agreement in the community on the right approach. It'd be great to compile what libraries to use, so you can very quickly put something together like you'd be able to do with Rails (e.g. devise, sidekiq, actionmailer, ...).