Tell us what you want to do, and maybe we can offer some suggestions.
For example, in V18 there is an announced new REST API. Maybe that will help? If you are using Node, then I suspect you are wanting to show real-time events. Take a look at the announced gateway service for V18. While there isn't any information about what this service will do, I suspect it will offer the ability to subscribe to events? I'm hoping for websockets or webhooks. My guess is these tools will be available in the December 2021 time frame.