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Ember.js vs Meteor: What are the differences?
What is Ember.js? A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web apps. Ember.js is a JavaScript framework that does all of the heavy lifting that you'd normally have to do by hand. There are tasks that are common to every web app; Ember.js does those things for you, so you can focus on building killer features and UI.
What is Meteor? An ultra-simple, database-everywhere, data-on-the-wire, pure-Javascript web framework. 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.
Ember.js and Meteor are primarily classified as "Javascript MVC Frameworks" and "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools respectively.
"Elegant", "Quick to develop" and "Great mvc" are the key factors why developers consider Ember.js; whereas "Real-time", "Full stack, one language" and "Best app dev platform available today" are the primary reasons why Meteor is favored.
Ember.js and Meteor are both open source tools. Meteor with 41.2K GitHub stars and 5.03K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Ember.js with 21.1K GitHub stars and 4.17K GitHub forks.
DigitalOcean, Twitch, and Square are some of the popular companies that use Ember.js, whereas Meteor is used by Rocket.Chat, FashionUnited, and Hazeorid. Ember.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 293 company stacks & 76 developers stacks; compared to Meteor, which is listed in 195 company stacks and 156 developer stacks.
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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.
This basically came down to two things: performance on compute-heavy tasks and a need for good tooling. We used to have a Meteor based Node.js application which worked great for RAD and getting a working prototype in a short time, but we felt pains trying to scale it, especially when doing anything involving crunching data, which Node sucks at. We also had bad experience with tooling support for doing large scale refactorings in Javascript compared to the best-in-class tools available for Java (IntelliJ). Given the heavy domain and very involved logic we wanted good tooling support to be able to do great refactorings that are just not possible in Javascript. Java is an old warhorse, but it performs fantastically and we have not regretted going down this route, avoiding "enterprise" smells and going as lightweight as we can, using Jdbi instead of Persistence API, a homegrown Actor Model library for massive concurrency, etc ...
Pros of Ember.js
- Elegant126
- Quick to develop97
- Great mvc83
- Great community82
- Great router73
- Values conventions, there is one-true way to organize52
- Open source50
- Components44
- Mvc framework34
- Handlebars.js28
- Htmlbars13
- Yehuda katz11
- Tom dale10
- Great logo10
- It's NOT Google or Facebook6
- manages large data sets on the front end easily5
- Convention over Configuration5
- Glimmer: react-like rendering engine5
- Organized4
- Fast4
- Enterprise4
- Intelligent4
- It rocks4
- Good docs3
- Fastest spinning circles3
- IE8 support3
- Easy and Quick to develop2
- Documentation is finally active and updated2
- Flexibility1
- Business wins1
- Comprehensive1
- Great for big apps/many devs because its organized1
- Growing community1
- For building ambitious Web apps1
- Dependency Injection1
- Stability without stagnation1
Pros of Meteor
- Real-time252
- Full stack, one language200
- Best app dev platform available today183
- Data synchronization155
- Javascript152
- Focus on your product not the plumbing118
- Hot code pushes107
- Open source106
- Live page updates102
- Latency compensation92
- Ultra-simple development environment39
- Real time awesome29
- Smart Packages29
- Great for beginners23
- Direct Cordova integration22
- Better than Rails16
- Less moving parts15
- It's just amazing13
- Blaze10
- Great community support8
- Plugins for everything8
- One command spits out android and ios ready apps.6
- It just works5
- 0 to Production in no time5
- Coding Speed4
- Easy deployment4
- Is Agile in development hybrid(mobile/web)4
- You can grok it in a day. No ng nonsense4
- Easy yet powerful2
- AngularJS Integration2
- One Code => 3 Platforms: Web, Android and IOS2
- Community2
- Easy Setup1
- Free1
- Nosql1
- Hookie friendly1
- High quality, very few bugs1
- Stack available on Codeanywhere1
- Real time1
- Friendly to use1
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Cons of Ember.js
- Very little flexibility2
- Too much convention, too little configuration2
- Hard to integrate with Non Ruby apps1
- Hard to use if your API isn't RESTful1
Cons of Meteor
- Does not scale well5
- Hard to debug issues on the server-side4
- Heavily CPU bound4
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