[chrisquinnr]

For 1), the hardest part for me coming from LAMP stack apps was shifting over to the way routing works (see https://github.com/iron-meteor/iron-router) and attaching your subscriptions to routes.

For 3) I've used meteorchef's excellent base package (https://github.com/themeteorchef/base) for two big projects so far and it's great.

[sergiotapia]

FWIW don't use IronRouter. It's considered an antipattern now to tie your router to your subscriptions and generally to have reactivity in your router.

Use FlowRouter and BlazeLayout, both found on Atmosphere.

It's like yeah Martini is popular in the Go ecosystem, but it's now considered bad to use now that people know better.