Meteor vs PurifyCSS

Overview

Meteor

Stacks1.9K

Followers1.8K

Votes1.7K

GitHub Stars44.8K

Forks5.3K

PurifyCSS

Stacks12

Followers23

Votes0

GitHub Stars9.9K

Forks383

Meteor vs PurifyCSS: 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; PurifyCSS: Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps. Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps.

Meteor can be classified as a tool in the "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category, while PurifyCSS is grouped under "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions".

Meteor and PurifyCSS are both open source tools. Meteor with 41.2K GitHub stars and 5.03K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than PurifyCSS with 9.11K GitHub stars and 383 GitHub forks.

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Carl-Erik

Jan 23, 2020

Decided

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 ...

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Detailed Comparison

Meteor	PurifyCSS
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.	Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps.
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	Creates a new file made up of only the CSS selectors that you use.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 44.8K	GitHub Stars 9.9K
GitHub Forks 5.3K	GitHub Forks 383
Stacks 1.9K	Stacks 12
Followers 1.8K	Followers 23
Votes 1.7K	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 251 Real-time 200 Full stack, one language 183 Best app dev platform available today 155 Data synchronization 152 Javascript Cons 5 Does not scale well 4 Hard to debug issues on the server-side 4 Heavily CPU bound	No community feedback yet
Integrations
AngularJS React MongoDB Node.js Apache Cordova	No integrations available

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