The best alternatives to Node.js By Example are Google Cloud Platform, Trace, and SnailJS. If these 3 options don't work for you, we've listed a few more alternatives below.
SnailJS is a starter/boilerplate app that attempts to define some structure for projects where the people involved want to dedicate some thought into how they will be built, don't want to give up control, and want to be fairly optimized.
Like it or not, there's gonna come a day, when your boss says "We should make a CLI". To help you I've built create-node-cli — a CLI that generates CLIs. Even more, I'm teaching a 10-hour-100-video course on doing just that, create NodeCLI.com