I'm quite sure the authors of Django would be able to tell similar stories about Python...

Yeah that's kind of the point of this blog. I dive a bit deeper than you need to know as an app developer. Also touched on this at the end:

>If the final API is successful, its users never have to think about this process. Instead they can focus on creating apps.

> Instead they can focus on creating apps.

If only it worked that way. Unfortunately, somehow I always end up needing to know about the process cause the abstraction leaks like a sieve. And it's leakier in javascript than in any other language.