JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

I have a few friends who swear by Meteor, but after reading over the website I’m still not sold on using it over Sails.js, CompoundJS, or any of the other node frameworks.

I’m not trying to knock Meteor down, but I do want to explain to my friends why it won’t be using it for the time being. I feel that Meteor wants to solve a lot of problems that I don’t care about.

Maybe that’s because instead of making a lot of web apps I’m maintaining a B2B marketing website every day. Maybe I’ll look back on this post a year from now and kick myself. But for now, let’s go over what baffles me about Meteor.

There are many ways to start an internet startup and I have seen different ones in practice and unfortunately I tried the worst myself and wasted a lot of time. It was my first startup attempt and I really did not have a clue what I was doing. Additionally we got nearly no advice even though we have been in a so called incubator. The approach we used back then was the 'Hack all day long' approach, added with a flavor of 'never ask if someone would use our stuff'. I can tell you: This approach is bad, really bad! There are mainly two reasons why it is so bad.Click here to edit the title