I agree, having some simple JavaScript examples for people to get started on will help a lot. Just getting a build environment for safe_nodejs is proving beyond many skilled Devs here, and for showing code examples it will help a lot too.
I’m not sure of its status, but @whiteoutmashups has also done some great work on providing this. See below. I think his and @DavidMtl’s work will need updating for the latest API though.