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Nice looking site.

What did doing this in Meteor get you? Why did you go with a framework that focuses primarily on real-time interactions/data streaming?

It seems to me this could easily be a Rails app with some simple Angular components for the Filter Career Paths bit. But, perhaps this betrays my ignorance of the versatility of Meteor...

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Thanks for the feedback! Me being a 21 year old developer who didn't have his hands in the mud when all the big guys were in play (Rails, Django, etc), I went for a new framework like Meteor to see where my self-learning abilities can benefit me. So far it's been great in terms of the speed we can develop at and the transparency between front end and back-end (no missed import calls anywhere to crash the app). Meteor, to early adopters, and people who haven't played around with it too much, who also have a rich background in other frameworks, might seem like not the go-to but for us it's been great so far.

Cool, thanks for the background. Good luck with the site.

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