I am inclined to agree with you that getting from 0 to prototype is easier in Java than it is node.js. This is also true of Ruby, PHP and Python, by the way, where things like Rails, Laravel, and Django give you a platforms with great scaffolding abilities.
However, I think node is closing ground here fast. What it has lacked heretofore is an opinionated framework such as Rails that lets you set up a lot of scaffolding and boilerplating fast, precisely because that opinionated philosophy takes away a lot of choices and makes automating this easier.
But that opinionated framework comes with drawbacks. It's a lot harder to optimize your apps because the frameworks optimize for development time, not performance. It's a pain to do weird/custom things, like if you want some highly optimized SQL, have fun fighting with your ORM.
Furthermore, this kind of thing will come to Node.js too -- javascript is too popular for it not to. Meteor is something you might want to check out, and yeoman probably already has a lot of what you are looking for. A lot of times yeoman drives me a little nuts because it seems like every generator template has about 80% of what I want and none are perfect, but YMMV.
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I am inclined to agree with you that getting from 0 to prototype is easier in Java than it is node.js. This is also true of Ruby, PHP and Python, by the way, where things like Rails, Laravel, and Django give you a platforms with great scaffolding abilities.
However, I think node is closing ground here fast. What it has lacked heretofore is an opinionated framework such as Rails that lets you set up a lot of scaffolding and boilerplating fast, precisely because that opinionated philosophy takes away a lot of choices and makes automating this easier.
But that opinionated framework comes with drawbacks. It's a lot harder to optimize your apps because the frameworks optimize for development time, not performance. It's a pain to do weird/custom things, like if you want some highly optimized SQL, have fun fighting with your ORM.
Furthermore, this kind of thing will come to Node.js too -- javascript is too popular for it not to. Meteor is something you might want to check out, and yeoman probably already has a lot of what you are looking for. A lot of times yeoman drives me a little nuts because it seems like every generator template has about 80% of what I want and none are perfect, but YMMV.