On a $5/mo 512mb/20gb DO VPS, a single django application deployed with nginx, gunicorn, postgres and redis on the same box started to OOM me (nothing in application logs!) when doing something like generating a thumbnail.
Deployed some swap and once thumbnail caches are warm we're fine, but, adding node as an additional dependency just seems overkill. python-react seems like a good fit.[0]
[0] https://github.com/markfinger/python-react
edit: s/React-python/python-react/g