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Explore the pros & cons of Meteor and its alternatives. Learn about popular competitors like React, Angular, and NuGet
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What is Meteor and what are its top alternatives?

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 Package Managers category of a tech stack.
Meteor is an open source tool with 44K GitHub stars and 5.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Meteor's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Meteor

  • React
    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
    Angular

    It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications. ...

  • RubyGems
    RubyGems

    It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them. ...

  • Bower
    Bower

    Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat. ...

  • NuGet
    NuGet

    A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension. ...

  • Composer
    Composer

    It is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you. ...

  • Elm
    Elm

    Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code. ...

  • Julia
    Julia

    Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. ...

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React

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PROS OF REACT
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    Components
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    Virtual dom
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    Performance
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    Simplicity
  • 442
    Composable
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    Data flow
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    Declarative
  • 127
    Isn't an mvc framework
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    Reactive updates
  • 115
    Explicit app state
  • 49
    JSX
  • 29
    Learn once, write everywhere
  • 22
    Easy to Use
  • 21
    Uni-directional data flow
  • 17
    Works great with Flux Architecture
  • 11
    Great perfomance
  • 10
    Javascript
  • 9
    Built by Facebook
  • 8
    TypeScript support
  • 6
    Server Side Rendering
  • 6
    Speed
  • 5
    Feels like the 90s
  • 5
    Excellent Documentation
  • 5
    Props
  • 5
    Functional
  • 5
    Easy as Lego
  • 5
    Closer to standard JavaScript and HTML than others
  • 5
    Cross-platform
  • 5
    Easy to start
  • 5
    Hooks
  • 5
    Awesome
  • 5
    Scalable
  • 4
    Super easy
  • 4
    Allows creating single page applications
  • 4
    Server side views
  • 4
    Sdfsdfsdf
  • 4
    Start simple
  • 4
    Strong Community
  • 4
    Fancy third party tools
  • 4
    Scales super well
  • 3
    Has arrow functions
  • 3
    Beautiful and Neat Component Management
  • 3
    Just the View of MVC
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    Simple, easy to reason about and makes you productive
  • 3
    Fast evolving
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    SSR
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    Great migration pathway for older systems
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    Rich ecosystem
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    Simple
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    Has functional components
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    Every decision architecture wise makes sense
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    Very gentle learning curve
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    Split your UI into components with one true state
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    Recharts
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    Permissively-licensed
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    Fragments
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    Sharable
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    Image upload
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    HTML-like
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    React hooks
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    Datatables
CONS OF REACT
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    Requires discipline to keep architecture organized
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    No predefined way to structure your app
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    Need to be familiar with lots of third party packages
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    JSX
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    Not enterprise friendly
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    One-way binding only
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    State consistency with backend neglected
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    Bad Documentation
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    Error boundary is needed
  • 2
    Paradigms change too fast

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Vaibhav Taunk
Team Lead at Technovert · | 31 upvotes · 3.6M views

I am starting to become a full-stack developer, by choosing and learning .NET Core for API Development, Angular CLI / React for UI Development, MongoDB for database, as it a NoSQL DB and Flutter / React Native for Mobile App Development. Using Postman, Markdown and Visual Studio Code for development.

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Adebayo Akinlaja
Engineering Manager at Andela · | 30 upvotes · 3.2M views

I picked up an idea to develop and it was no brainer I had to go with React for the frontend. I was faced with challenges when it came to what component framework to use. I had worked extensively with Material-UI but I needed something different that would offer me wider range of well customized components (I became pretty slow at styling). I brought in Evergreen after several sampling and reads online but again, after several prototype development against Evergreen—since I was using TypeScript and I had to import custom Type, it felt exhaustive. After I validated Evergreen with the designs of the idea I was developing, I also noticed I might have to do a lot of styling. I later stumbled on Material Kit, the one specifically made for React . It was promising with beautifully crafted components, most of which fits into the designs pages I had on ground.

A major problem of Material Kit for me is it isn't written in TypeScript and there isn't any plans to support its TypeScript version. I rolled up my sleeve and started converting their components to TypeScript and if you'll ask me, I am still on it.

In summary, I used the Create React App with TypeScript support and I am spending some time converting Material Kit to TypeScript before I start developing against it. All of these components are going to be hosted on Bit.

If you feel I am crazy or I have gotten something wrong, I'll be willing to listen to your opinion. Also, if you want to have a share of whatever TypeScript version of Material Kit I end up coming up with, let me know.

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Angular

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PROS OF ANGULAR
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    It's a powerful framework
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    Straight-forward architecture
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    TypeScript
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    Great UI and Business Logic separation
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    Powerful, maintainable, fast
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    Amazing CLI
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    Great mvc
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    Powerfull Dependency Injection
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    Easy to build
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    All in one Framework
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    Opinionated, batteries-included approach
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    Schematics
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    Solid Standard Setup.
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    Structured
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    Performance
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    Complex
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    Only for single page applications
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    Builders
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    RxJS
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    Ng upgrade
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    React
CONS OF ANGULAR
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    Overcomplicated
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    Large overhead in file size and initialization time
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    Ugly code
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    CLI not open to other test and linting tools

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When Redash was created 5 years ago we chose AngularJS as our frontend framework, but as AngularJS was replaced by Angular 2 we had to make a new choice. We decided that we won't migrate to Angular, but to either React or Vue.js. Eventually we decided to migrate to React for the following reasons:

  1. Many in our community are already using React internally and will be able to contribute.
  2. Using react2angular we can do the migration gradually over time instead of having to invest in a big rewrite while halting feature development.

So far the gradual strategy pays off and in the last 3 major releases we already shipped React code in the Angular.js application.

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Max Musing
Founder & CEO at BaseDash · | 10 upvotes · 873.1K views

From my experience of the early startup world, a majority of companies these days use Node.js. Python and Go are the next biggest languages, but significantly smaller than Node.

However, if you're having trouble with the front end aspect of Django, using Node probably won't make that easier for you. You'll have a lot more options between front end frameworks (React, Vue.js, Angular 2) , but they'll definitely take more time to learn than Django's templating system.

Think about whether you want to focus on front end or back end for now, and make a decision from there.

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RubyGems

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Easily download, install, and use ruby software packages on your system
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PROS OF RUBYGEMS
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    CONS OF RUBYGEMS
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      Bower

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      PROS OF BOWER
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        Package management
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        Open source
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        Simple
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        Great for for project dependencies injection
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        Web components with Meteor
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        Portable dependencies Management
      CONS OF BOWER
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        Deprecated
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        Front end only

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      NuGet

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      PROS OF NUGET
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        Best package (and maybe only 1) management for .NET
      CONS OF NUGET
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        Composer

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        PROS OF COMPOSER
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          Must have dependency manager for PHP
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          Centralized autoload.php
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          Large number of libraries
        CONS OF COMPOSER
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          Elm

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          PROS OF ELM
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            Code stays clean
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            Great type system
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            No Runtime Exceptions
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            Fun
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            Easy to understand
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            Type safety
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            Correctness
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            JS fatigue
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            Ecosystem agrees on one Application Architecture
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            Declarative
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            Friendly compiler messages
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            Fast rendering
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            If it compiles, it runs
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            Welcoming community
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            Stable ecosystem
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            'Batteries included'
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            Package.elm-lang.org
          CONS OF ELM
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            No typeclasses -> repitition (i.e. map has 130versions)
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            JS interop can not be async
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            JS interoperability a bit more involved
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            More code is required
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            No JSX/Template
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            Main developer enforces "the correct" style hard
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            No communication with users
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            Backwards compability breaks between releases

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          React is awesome, but is just a view library, when we need to manage state, there is Redux.js. The ecosystem of redux is big, complex and hard to integrate. That's why we choose to create hydux. Hydux is simple, the main idea is from Elm, a pure functional vdom-based framework for front-end. We seperate the whole app with state, actions and views. Which means not only our views are a tree, but also our state and actions. Reuse state and actions are just like reuse react components, no need to consider dependences.

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          Julia

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          A high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing
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          PROS OF JULIA
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            Fast Performance and Easy Experimentation
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            Designed for parallelism and distributed computation
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            Free and Open Source
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            Dynamic Type System
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            Multiple Dispatch
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            Calling C functions directly
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            Lisp-like Macros
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            Powerful Shell-like Capabilities
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            Jupyter notebook integration
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            REPL
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            String handling
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            Emojis as variable names
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            Interoperability
          CONS OF JULIA
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            Immature library management system
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            Slow program start
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            JIT compiler is very slow
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            Poor backwards compatibility
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            Bad tooling
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            No static compilation

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