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Meteor gives you everything you'd need normally need on a development platform based on Javascript, here are some of my favorite features:
1) It has already auto implemented a live reload feature, so if you make a change on your html, javascript or even css code it'll automatically update the page and show you the changes, something like nodemon package or browser sync.
2) you will never have to point/require code files, static files, or files in general because meteor auto detects what is new in your app, if something changes it'll automatically include it in your app ready to be used without passing a single line of code, like an image, css files, html...
3) Meteor uses reactivity for almost everything (if not everything) on your age, so your code and app changes are reflected in real time, if you don't understand this you can think about it like sockets.
4) You can render js code easily only for selected templates without executing it in all of them, I mean, for example, you can pass a function in jquery and use it in only one template/route by calling a function like Template.mytemplate.rendered and this will automatically call the code for that template only an not all the scope, it's possible without meteor too, but I have to admit it's really easy and cleaner.
5) it has implemented handlebars with spacebars, but you can coustomize your frontend with angular or react without major problems.
6)A great commmunity, meteor has atmospherejs a great site where people upload packages ready to be used in meteor, and this is something that I love because you find almost everything herel, it has around 10.000 packages.
7 Straight to the point, when you want to start a new project you can do it by using the meteor create command and it'll give you everything ready to start coding (I'm not lying) you literally start making your app code after creating your project without configuring anything else.
8) Scalability is just amazing with meteor.
if you liked what you read until now, there are a lot of really cool features about meteor that you can find in their official website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some things I don't like that much about meteor are:
1) Meteor is "relatively new", it's no precisely a bad thing but it's something you can find a little bit counterproductive, why? because some tiny problems are not yet solved in stack overflow for example and you'll have to figure a way to solve it on your own (but let's face it we are programmers so we deal with this kind of situations everyday)
2) It uses a mongodb version (mini-version if I'm not wrong) included by default, if you want to use another database it's possible but sacrifices a couple of features, like reactivity in some ways, so it's something you have to take in count when developing your project structure.
3) The livereload feature can be a little be slow when you are developing (I'm not sure if it's based on your computer specs, I have an i3 PC and i5 Laptop and the performance is pretty much the same in both of them) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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I am working on meteor JS for last two years and my experience with meteor java script framework is very good.
we used meteor.js for developing our mobile(android and IOS applications) and web application one of the main advantages we got from this framework is we have to use only one language for front-end, back-end and for database,
Which coupled with MongoDB database which stores JSON Objects, and uses java script as a query language meteor.js is very fast due to its real - time feature, which propagate data changes to client without requiring the developer to write any synchronization code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There are very few disadvantages of meteor.js, some of we are faced are following
first one is you have to use mongoDB as database query language also there is lack of sql support in meteor.js
and also In meteor there is lack of testing frameworks which turns out to be one of main disadvantages of meteor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
fast prototyping, learning curve, real-time by default, so easy for pwa applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Cant disable front end/default page. This is so useful for a server-only application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Mini mongo (client-side mongo) is pretty cool, as is pub-sub for some applications. Doesn't scale well in other scenarios though.
It's a full client-side and server side framework that covers authentication, DB management, client-side UI, etc. I've enjoyed working with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Pub/sub doesn't scale well when there are many DB updates in a short period. The developer abandoned nice performance monitoring system (Kadira). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
MEAN Stack there is a necessity to perform synchronization between Express.js and Angular.js. also in the Node.js and MongoDB. But, Meteor JS delivers an absolute solution for producing and deploying web apps. Meteor you can develop apps in JavaScript for a web browser, application server, and mobile environment. Meteor has several built-in features like hot code reload, automatic CSS & JS minification, and reactive templates. The app is created using JavaScript so you can use the same code on both client and server-side. Meteor JS allows us to develop and deploy Android and iOS apps through the Cordova PhoneGap alliance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Especially the asset management that allows using a glob pattern and NPM dependency management syntax matching that which is used by package.json. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Meteor publication/subscriptions are very easy to work with, allowing easy use of data manipulation, which is one of the advantages of using a full stack framework like Meteor that covers both backend and frontend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The Meteor "Atmosphere" ecosystem is lacking, and lacks the robustness of library ecosystems for React, and even Angular. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's very easy, and it can be deployed in multiple platforms, very powerful and it can be interested with different front end frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Community support is not as big and a bit difficult to deploy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
the fact that it is coming ready out of the box, almost no configuration is needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
it might be expensive for smaller companies
you need a bit of time to get to work with this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Easy to learn, integration with other frontend engines like Vue and React, has support for npm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes the apps get bloated due to the internal workings of the meteor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like the framework itself because of it is simply , efficient, and scalable and have ability to develop one code base for multiple platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Less community on internet for help but we use documentation for the help Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
