[girvo]

I'm a React fanboy, and use it and React Native in production on some pretty large apps. However, Meteor adopting React (and related tooling) still has merit, as to build those projects required me to wire them all together, enforce convention for the other developers using it so that we didn't try to use the tools in ways they weren't intended, and work around the various issues that crop up when doing Unviersal Javascript. Meteor can solve all of these, and can market themselves as that integrated solution. We all win, in that case.

[Keats]

But Meteor dictates your backend AND your database, which React does not do, so it is appealing to a much smaller user group.