# Meteor Reviews **Vendor:** Meteor Development Group **Category:** [Java Web Frameworks](https://www.g2.com/categories/java-web-frameworks) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 25 ## About Meteor The JavaScript App Platform ## Meteor Reviews ### 1. Fasters Implementation And Real-Time Feature Is Good But Sql Support Isn't That Good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** shiv c. | shivaji, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Meteor?** 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. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** 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 **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** if you are planning for multi platform application and want to save development time and cost then i would suggest go for meteor.js another advantage for the organization is you only have to hire meteors.js resources as front and backed and database queries are written in JavaScript language with meteor framework. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We developed web application for our organization in meteor and written back-end scripts for the android and IOS mobile application . and for all of this we used single java script framework i.e Meteor.js which is very big advantage for us. ### 2. Best/Fast/Easy Node.js Framework **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jhonny F. | Analista de suporte de TI, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Meteor?** Fast prototyping, learning curve, real-time by default, so easy for PWA applications. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** Cannot disable the front end/default page. This is very useful for a server-only application. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creation time reduction DevOps reduced by 90% Fast support with the galaxy hosting ### 3. Great in it's day. Community seems to have moved on **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Meteor?** 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 **What do you dislike about Meteor?** Pub/sub doesn't scale well when there are many DB updates in a short period. The developer abandoned nice performance monitoring system (Kadira). **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** client and server for our user-facing systems ### 4. Power of Meteor JS framework **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Meteor?** 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. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** Especially the asset management that allows using a glob pattern and NPM dependency management syntax matching that which is used by package.json. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's complete MEAN stack framework. Able to save data when there is no connection. The way it manages everything it's amazing. ### 5. Meteor review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Meteor?** 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. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** The Meteor "Atmosphere" ecosystem is lacking, and lacks the robustness of library ecosystems for React, and even Angular. **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** I would recommend migrating your workflow to more modern frameworks, specifically React, and not Angular. Or, if you feel like being different, go for Svelte, or Vue. Meteor is quite outdated. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's been a while since I used it but I was building software for analyzing large datasets involving a single patient's orthodontic records, for rendering and display in report form. The Spacebars templating system is quite intuitive, but this is true for most modern templating systems including React's JSX. ### 6. Powerful framework easy to learn and multiplatform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinny B. | NodeJS Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Meteor?** It's very easy, and it can be deployed in multiple platforms, very powerful and it can be interested with different front end frameworks. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** Community support is not as big and a bit difficult to deploy. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multiplatform app build with the same code. I sustancially reduce the coding deploying the same code to different platforms ### 7. Very easy platform to build apps with ! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dor B. | DevOps Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Meteor?** the fact that it is coming ready out of the box, almost no configuration is needed **What do you dislike about Meteor?** it might be expensive for smaller companies you need a bit of time to get to work with this product **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** if you need to build Build Full-Stack Javascript on the most easy way - this is the Platform for you **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** i can finally Install public packages much more easily and manage all my workarounds all the technology that i already use is integrated with meteor which is super convenient ### 8. I am a big fan of Isomorphic development frameworks like meteor **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hammad S. | Full Stack Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Meteor?** Easy to learn, integration with other frontend engines like Vue and React, has support for npm. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** Sometimes the apps get bloated due to the internal workings of the meteor **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** High available systems are a good suit for Meteor. For instance, I have built a website that is basically a SaaS for Web performance and availability monitoring. I think Meteor played a great role in building a robust app pretty fast. ### 9. Meteor help us to develop multi platform apps using one framework **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kashif A. | Senior Software Engineer (.NET), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Meteor?** I like the framework itself because of it is simply , efficient, and scalable and have ability to develop one code base for multiple platforms **What do you dislike about Meteor?** Less community on internet for help but we use documentation for the help **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** Meteor is a framework which help you to use it without knowing any thing new. You just have to JavaScript which every developer already knows about it **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Actually we developed a personal mobile app using meteor ### 10. Pretty good and friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Asraf P. | Frontend Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Meteor?** The hosting and Deployment features are too awesome **What do you dislike about Meteor?** The scaling function seems to become more effective **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I got a problem with host my site and Meteor made It easy for me ### 11. The best JavaScript framework, Fast development for small projects. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chelsea G. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Meteor?** It's easy to learn and customize. Interestingly, on both the front and the back end we need only use one word. Good support from the family. It's easy to learn Meteor Framework, build in a unique language, and let me create more with less effort. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** With SQL, it doesn't work well. The user community isn't too large, so I have found it difficult to find resources and content that were so necessary to address the problem. **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** It is user friendly and easy to understand. If your request is to be smaller, meteor is one of the best settings for that. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Meteor is a javascript open source setting. The front end and back end can be used both. In small mobile apps, I have used this platform primarily. Easy to learn and to customize. Meteor.js has excellent documentation and a large development community. With mongoDB, it works well. We can quickly create prototypes and codes that operate over multiple platforms with Meteor. ### 12. Meteor - A Javascript application framework to move FAST **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eddie K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2017 **What do you like best about Meteor?** Meteor makes it easy to build real-time applications, it has a large community with many custom packages. It supports the use of NPM packages as well. There are plenty of tutorials and posts covering a wide variety of topics. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** Meteor's package system can be an impediment sometimes, but this is usually mitigated through the use of the appropriate NPM equivalent. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps build real-time applications from concept to production in very little time and allows developers to focus more on the business logic. ### 13. Real-time app in action **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guido G. | Desarrollador Web, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2017 **What do you like best about Meteor?** Meteor is a framework that allows the rapid development of applications, which can be deployed on the dominant platforms (web, ios, android). Its integration with MongoDB facilitates data storage and uses Distributed Data Protocol and a publish-subscribe pattern to automatically send any changes to the client without the need for the developer to write some synchronization code or client refresh. In the client, Meteor depends on jQuery and can be used with any library for graphical interfaces with JavaScript. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** Being based on Node.js, we depend that it is installed on the server computer for its operation, therefore, applications made with Meteor can not be deployed on traditional web servers. This increases operating and commissioning costs. **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** You must consider that meteor is a framework that is constantly evolving, so it is necessary to keep up to date in knowledge. If you give it a try, you will not regret it, it's best to create real-time applications. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a real-time application, clients do not need to reload the page to have the latest content, this is particularly desirable in companies where up-to-date information is their priority. Imagine that in company X have an activity control system, where the current activities should be reported to the immediate leader / leader, the leader / leader should not reload the page to find out what the staff on his team is, it will simply remain In the application and every time you look it will have the updated information. At least apply this in a freelance project ### 14. Most complette Javascript full-stack development framework and toolchain **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erik U. | Technical Specialist, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2016 **What do you like best about Meteor?** Meteor provides an easy to setup full stack development framework. Developers can choose what to use for front-end development: from Meteor native Blaze view layer to Angular and React. Samples and tutorials provide a good base to get started in minutes. Included support for Cordova enables building apps for both iOS and Android. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** Developers need to take in account there is heavy ongoing development on several opensource projects included in this framework. For market-ready products some time must be dedicated to review and assesment of utilized opensource modules. Even if Meteor can be installed on Windows keep in mind that Windows PCs are still handicapped for modern full-stack developmnet. Enterprise requirements for RDBMS can represent some blocking issues, but this should get improved with Apollo stack as the data stack for modern apps. Support for Electron.js to buld desktop apps could be another plus for the Meteor framework. **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** It's worth trying Meteor on some project that requires a vertical prototype (PoC). In most cases it will be the tool that will save you time (and money) but it is likley your prototype will evolve in a product. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our challange is building an iOS and Android app quickly and with limited developer resources. Meteor combined with Npm and its rich ecosystem of Javascript and Node.js libraries allows developers fast prototyping and unprecedented time-to-market for websites, APIs and mobile apps on both iOS and Android. Challange remains convincing teams of developers and decision-makers that Javascript is one of best directions. All major corporations have allready realized this (just have a look at JS-based code editors/IDEs from GitHub, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe ... ). Meteor provides an easy way to start an ongoing invesment in full stack developmnet where knowledge of Javascript can be employed to develop anything from REST APIs to websites and apps. ### 15. Excellent Full Stack Framework **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2016 **What do you like best about Meteor?** With Meteor you can develop full stack application very easily in minutes. Seriously, if you are interested in developing a Web Application with Javascript-MongoDB, Meteor is your framework to go. The Meteor community is amazing, and the support is very good. Meteor also comes with React support. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** The flexibility to switch databases. The tutorials, probably are not clear enough. **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** As always first analyse your problem, Meteor is a framework that allows your to implement WebApps very fast. However sometimes is better to analize the options you have and then proceed. Meteor is just another node-based framework, and you can use any modules that you like, via npm or yarn. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing Web Applications that are reactive and responsive with a beautiful design in mind. ### 16. Meteor in light of 1.3 - Going Forward **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyler M. | Web Developer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Meteor?** Ease of configuration, especially since the introduction of native NPM modules in 1.3. Definitely a nice change from having to take the time to wrap the packages. Ease of OAuth configuration is also an absolute pleasure. Having Mongo as the DB is great for the number of projects I do which rely heavily on GTFS/geospacial data - combined with meteors reactivity, it can speed up development time on these projects immensely. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** The direction MDG is taking Meteor - particularly in the scrapping plans for Postgres support in n favour of GraphQL. **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** If you jumped on the Meteor bandwagon with the hopes that the rumours of SQL support coming were true, steer clear. I honestly do not agree with MDGs decision to entirely scrap the idea of building Postgres support in favour of GraphQL-like support. A number of changes in 1.3 have actually caused me to reconsider using Meteor in favour of Pyramid for certain projects going forward. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed of development by far the biggest. Being able to cut development time almost in half is huge for a company our size, and the workload we acquire. An active and supportive community is also very reassuring, and a big bonus as well, as we are also a company primarily consisted of Jr Devs. ### 17. Fun with meteor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam H. | Co-Founder & CTO, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Meteor?** Fast and easy to get started. I can implement new features and make changes to my existing code base very quickly. Meteor is very opinionated, but because it was built on nodejs, you have the entire catalog of NPM at your fingertips. Meteor is also incredibly easy to learn. It's an SPA framework, so it shifts a lot of the computational power away from my server and onto my user's device. This is great because I can spin up a tiny VM and still serve plenty of users. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** It's too closely tied to mongodb. I could use npm to import other db drivers like postgres, but I would lose a lot of the native support for mongodb that meteor baked in (e.g. minimongo on the client, meteor accounts, etc.). Some people don't like Blaze (the reactive front-end templating system that comes with Meteor), but I personally love it. Also, meteor does integrate well with angular and react. It's a bit of a memory hog. An idle server requires 200-300mb of RAM. Furthermore, you need to be careful what you "publish/subscribe". My understanding is that anything you "publish" from your server gets put into RAM, so if you have a lot of users who are subscribing, you'll quickly blow through the memory on your server. The phonegap integration is great, but it's done some handwaving to achieve the appearance of a native integration. When you run into a problem, you have to learn "the Meteor way of doing things" to fix your problem rather than relying on the plethora of phonegap build solutions you can easily find on stackoverflow. **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** One additional comment. Meteor is very young (it just released v1.0 roughly a year or so prior to the writing of this review). For that reason, it is constantly changing things. For instance, a few months ago, they announced they were dropping support for Blaze (their reactive templating engine) in favor of react, only to recant a few weeks later after significant community backlash. Also, they've been promising things like native SQL integration for months but haven't delivered. It can sometimes be frustrating as a developer for the future of the framework to be developed SOMEWHAT in the dark. I say somewhat because they do have a Trello board and are pretty good at communicating with the community. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed, speed, speed. Meteor allows me to spin up new features and apps incredibly quickly. It may not be the best choice for a large team of distributed engineers, but for small teams it's incredibly valuable! ### 18. 1 Year of Using Meteor to build web apps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David H. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2016 **What do you like best about Meteor?** The best feature of Meteor is hands down the triple-binding it offers by default. Where other frameworks have two-way binding between the views and their controllers (in this case html files and JS logic), Meteor takes this one step further and allows you to bind views, controllers, and datastores. Essentially this boils down to saving database queries to a variable. In practice you might have an information store. In Meteor you can say "var x = my_datastore.fetch_contents()" This variable is now bound between the controller and the mongo database in Meteor such that they are always in sync. Further, if you make x editable by the client through the view Meteor handles a lot of basic state saving to keep all three in sync. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** Not a good tool for rapid prototyping. Every change can take seconds to tens of seconds to reload. Further the native templating language is horrible. UI work with basic Meteor is painful and cumbersome. Thankfully Meteor allows the user to choose a UI framework of their choice. I would definitely recommend dropping the native blaze templating methodology in favor of something like React or AngularJS. **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** Why not, could be awesome! :) **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently using Meteor to build apps for clients of all types. They need secure, stable, webapps that can be run across devices and even on embedded touchscreens. Meteor provides them a standard deployment procedure that makes it quick to handle deployments over different devices. Meteor is absolutely fantastic for small teams making big products. ### 19. Solid Platform for any JavaScript Application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert B. | CTO, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2016 **What do you like best about Meteor?** 1.) Batteries-included data stack. No need to implement custom realtime synchronization or handle optimistic updates yourself, Meteor uses it's Livedata Protocol to offer a hassle-free realtime data solution that relies on MongoDB for data storage. 2.) JavaScript like it's supposed to be. With Meteor 1.3 and it's NPM integration, there's now absolutely no overhead to using the popular package manager, thus allowing all JavaScript libraries to be used on the server as well as the client side. No need for a configuration-heavy alternative like Webpack. 3.) Not Only Rapid Development. Although Meteor is the go-to framework for prototyping since it's very easy to get started with development and there's no need for much boilerplate, the platform goes a step further to ensure that your applications can be made future-proof, with many guidelines driven by the community and native testing support coming in Meteor 1.3. 4.) Backwards-Compatible Updates. Even though the platform is rapidly evolving, the developers always take good care of applications written for previous versions. This means that you can start writing your app today and even though the platform most probably will change certain preferences in terms of what the default view layers, data stacks, etc. should be, your applications that rely on the previous technologies will continue to work just fine in years to come. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** 1.) Rapid Evolvement. The platform evolves so quickly that Meteor apps from one year ago look completely different and new applications follow entirely different guidelines, which can result in difficult decisions in terms of what technologies to rely on and whether or not you want to go through the hassle of changing in order to go with the currently suggested stack. However, this issue is mitigated somewhat by the fact that no matter what technologies you go for, Meteor always makes sure that it stays backwards-compatible so you can be sure that it will continue to work. 2.) Enforced Realtime. Currently (as of Meteor 1.3) there's no way to make realtime data selective and turn it off for certain pages, i.e. if you'd like to create a more static experience and live data synchronization is not really a priority for you, Meteor doesn't provide a guideline for how you would handle that situation. This can be an issue in terms of scalability, as continuous connections cost a lot more than the good old request-response model. **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** If you write an application from scratch, there's no reason not to go with Meteor. Many guides are available that simplify the learning curve, and the aspects of the platform that seem magic at first will very rapidly start to become very logic and obvious. As of the day of this writing (March 2016), I suggest using the Meteor 1.3 release candidate in order to get access to upcoming features like ECMAScript 6 Modules, and I can also recommend the usage of React as the component layer. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were using Meteor for the prototype of a product of ours, and currently are using Meteor for a web application written from scratch for a customer. The reasons listed above really sold the framework and the development team (including me) are very satisfied with our choice. We use Meteor in conjunction with React and the integration works like a charm. ### 20. Amazing, simple and fast development platform based on Javascript. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Enmanuel D. | Front-End Developer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Meteor?** 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. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** 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) **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** Meteor is great for fast development and scalability, also it works with javascript which is a plus in my personal book. If you are looking to switch to a platform with this features, I recommend you to give it a chance, you'll probably love it. **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are currently using meteor on a couple of projects in one of the companies I'm working on, we switched to it because it's really easy to scale and also it's really fast to develop almost anything, our team seems to like it a lot, I'm developer and it's been a charm. I'm also using it in some personal projects and I have no complaints. ### 21. Meteor, a (young) node framework **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Meteor?** One of the best part of meteor is it's modernity, on the tech side, it's using node with blaze for templating, mongo for the database. But the best part is the packages! There is a LOT of packages for meteor, for routing to editors, well, everything, you can also use NPM packages which is nice, even better, with meteor 1.3, they will work out of the box. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** A lot of people like the hot reload, and it's nice if the project is small or if you have a mac (it's fast on osx, don't know why). But on Linux it can be sometime really slow. An other problem is the poor support for Windows, and finally, the fact that the framework is young mean you can sometime have strange bugs Also as a sysadmin, it's really easy to deploy meteor with meteor up! For me the product will get better if enough time, and with the additions of new component like react for exemple, it's really ahead of is time! **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** You should really know about javascript before switching to node js **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do with meteor most of my client websites, I've done a lot of community website, some business presentation website and I'm currently even doing an e-commerce website. I've also used meteor for an API (for an android app) ### 22. Great framework for quickly building rich real-time applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2016 **What do you like best about Meteor?** It's extremely easy to get started with Meteor, and required configuration is kept to a minimum. Everything you need is either built-in or easily installable with a simply command. You're free to organize your project however you like, as Meteor gathers together all code into a single bundle. There is a large amount of help available in the community. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** The framework tends to be a bit monolithic, since it combines all code together. It's a relatively closed ecosystem (although the situation is improving with NPM support). Large applications can run slowly and get unwieldy to develop due to long build times. ### 23. The best full stack framework for web and mobile development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Idraki M. | JavaScript Architect, Design, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2016 **What do you like best about Meteor?** The out-of-the-box reactivity make it the best framework to be used for application. Other tools might take so much to get this reactivity as a standard **What do you dislike about Meteor?** The uncertainty of MDG with the direction of the whole framework **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** It enable a software development to be accomplished in a much shorter time frame, with powerful data reactivity and optimistic UI ### 24. My first javascript framework that I've used and I love it **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2016 **What do you like best about Meteor?** - Easy to set up - Great tutorials and documentation - Love the package system where you can just download whatever you need. - **What do you dislike about Meteor?** - It does take some time to learn how it works but once you do, you can create apps really fast. **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** Give it at try. It is very simple to install and it has great documentation to get you started! **What problems is Meteor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mobile applications. I recently made my first app ever using Meteor. ### 25. Easy and fast **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Meteor?** The ability to fast prototype apps with server connection is cool. **What do you dislike about Meteor?** I dont like that it takes some time to compile my application on an omser computer. **Recommendations to others considering Meteor:** Try it. 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