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.

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.

- Easy to set up - Great tutorials and documentation - Love the package system where you can just download whatever you need. -