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Meteor vs Sails.js: What are the differences?
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; Sails.js: Realtime MVC Framework for Node.js. Sails is designed to mimic the MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps: data-driven APIs with scalable, service-oriented architecture.
Meteor can be classified as a tool in the "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category, while Sails.js is grouped under "Microframeworks (Backend)".
"Real-time" is the primary reason why developers consider Meteor over the competitors, whereas "Data-driven apis " was stated as the key factor in picking Sails.js.
Meteor and Sails.js are both open source tools. Meteor with 41.2K GitHub stars and 5.03K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Sails.js with 20.7K GitHub stars and 1.85K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Meteor has a broader approval, being mentioned in 195 company stacks & 156 developers stacks; compared to Sails.js, which is listed in 32 company stacks and 13 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 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
Pros of Sails.js
- Data-driven apis49
- Waterline ORM47
- Mvc37
- Easy rest32
- Real-time25
- Open source21
- Service-oriented architecture19
- Scalable18
- Convension over configuration10
- Rails-like asset pipeline9
- Node machines and machinepacks9
- Easy route/controller generation7
- Ruby on Rails basic stuff for JS devs6
- CLI for scaffolding project pieces3
- WebSocket support3
- Supportive community1
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Cons of Meteor
- Does not scale well5
- Hard to debug issues on the server-side4
- Heavily CPU bound4
Cons of Sails.js
- Waterline ORM5
- Defaults to VueJS4
- Standard MVC0