Is Node.js ready for primetime? [closed]

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I'm getting ready to develop a website from scratch. That site needs to have member authentication, db calls and realtime db communication.

Is Node.js ready for prim开发者_开发知识库etime or will I lose time if I do the entire site in node?

I'm coming from PHP using CodeIgniter and MySQL.