"First, lets admit the facts: as of today, it is possible to produce a competitive Node application whose entire stack will comfortably rest on various frameworks, tools and libraries developed exclusively by TJ. If you are doing things with Node, you will not escape TJ. He is omnipresent."
http://www.quora.com/TJ-Holowaychuk-1/How-is-TJ-Holowaychuk-...