I enjoyed Meteor. Is there anything else out there right now that works as smoothly. Just install meteor and it installs a local copy of mongodb. Not a fan of mongo per-se, rather I'm a fan that meteor didn't require me to install it at a system level but instead installed it locally in the project at the version correct for that release of meteor. IIRC it even installed its own copy of node at a certain version. Loved it!

When I look into other frameworks today they all seem lacking. They expect me to setup the backend "how I want it" and then write my own glue. (and of course make all my own mistakes). Where as meteor, "it just worked" out of the box