What is Meteor?
A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets.
Meteor is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Meteor is an open source tool with 43.8K GitHub stars and 5.3K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Meteor's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Meteor?
Companies
320 companies reportedly use Meteor in their tech stacks, including Accenture, Shelf, and Deloitte.
Developers
1482 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Meteor.
Meteor Integrations
Node.js, React, MongoDB, AngularJS, and WebStorm are some of the popular tools that integrate with Meteor. Here's a list of all 19 tools that integrate with Meteor.
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Decisions about Meteor
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Meteor in their tech stack.
Lucas Litton
Founder & CEO at Macombey · | 13 upvotes · 509.6K views
Next.js is probably the most enjoyable React framework our team could have picked. The development is an extremely smooth process, the file structure is beautiful and organized, and the speed is no joke. Our work with Next.js comes out much faster than if it was built on pure React or frameworks alike. We were previously developing all of our projects in Meteor before making the switch. We left Meteor due to the slow compiler and website speed. We deploy all of our Next.js projects on Vercel.
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Meteor's Features
- Pure JavaScript
- Live page updates
- Clean, powerful data synchronization
- Latency compensation
- Hot Code Pushes
- Sensitive code runs in a privileged environment
- Fully self-contained application bundles
- Interoperability
- Smart Packages
Meteor Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Meteor?
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
Angular
It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
ASP.NET
.NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications.
