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MEAN vs Meteor: What are the differences?
Developers describe MEAN as "A Simple, Scalable and Easy starting point for full stack javascript web development". MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) is a boilerplate that provides a nice starting point for MongoDB, Node.js, Express, and AngularJS based applications. It is designed to give you a quick and organized way to start developing MEAN based web apps with useful modules like Mongoose and Passport pre-bundled and configured. On the other hand, Meteor is detailed as "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.
MEAN and Meteor can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
"Javascript", "Easy" and "Nosql" are the key factors why developers consider MEAN; whereas "Real-time", "Full stack, one language" and "Best app dev platform available today" are the primary reasons why Meteor is favored.
MEAN 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 MEAN with 11.8K GitHub stars and 3.57K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Meteor has a broader approval, being mentioned in 195 company stacks & 156 developers stacks; compared to MEAN, which is listed in 37 company stacks and 24 developer stacks.
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 MEAN
- Javascript86
- Easy62
- Nosql58
- Great community52
- Mongoose50
- Modularity50
- Open source48
- Organized37
- Simple32
- Boilerplate31
- AngularJs10
- CLI9
- It's simply awesome9
- Cutting edge tech8
- Passport7
- It's a great new exciting stack6
- Yeoman6
- Docs6
- Friendly & Fun5
- Great Flexibility ;)4
- The WordPress of javascript apps4
- Genius3
- Modular2
- Scalable2
- JavaScript only2
- Growing Community1
- It's fun and has great potential1
- Gulp1
- Because i can write everything using javascript1
- Fast1
- The best0
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
- 0 to Production in no time5
- It just works5
- Easy deployment4
- Coding Speed4
- Is Agile in development hybrid(mobile/web)4
- You can grok it in a day. No ng nonsense4
- One Code => 3 Platforms: Web, Android and IOS2
- AngularJS Integration2
- Easy yet powerful2
- Community2
- Real time1
- Hookie friendly1
- High quality, very few bugs1
- Easy Setup1
- Free1
- Friendly to use1
- Stack available on Codeanywhere1
- Nosql1
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Cons of MEAN
Cons of Meteor
- Does not scale well5
- Hard to debug issues on the server-side4
- Heavily CPU bound4
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