Ask HN: Meteor vs. Express+React?

2 points·rayalez··4 comments

Over the past year I have been learning Node/Mongo/Express/React/Redux stack, and I'm pretty happy with it.

Is it worth investing my time in learning Meteor?

Does it have any advantages over the stack I have?

I think its well worth the investment IF you already have worked with and understand Node/Mongo/Express/React.

Meteor for me atleast increased my productivity by large magnitude. The framework itself is a much different beast than what it was several years ago and it continues to grow. I've built several large scale products with the framework and its an absolute pleasure working with it. Getting ramped up is straight forward and offers a lot of shortcuts you normally wouldn't have right off the bat.

With all great things however there are downsides. Scaling can be tricky if you dont understand the internals of the framework. The atmosphere package ecosystem isn't as strong as it use to be.

> Is it worth investing my time in learning Meteor?

No, it is not. Most of the initial bigger enthusiasts already left the boat. Not a good time to join.

I wouldn't say thats accurate at all. If anything a lot of new key members of the community of stepped up. With all the new additions to Meteor you can essentially depend on the NPM ecosystem for any 3rd party packages.

Meteor doesn't bring anything to the table plus add a lot of constraints. I'd not develop any freelance with meteor again.

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