[SomeCallMeTim]

Meteor is emphatically NOT all-in-or-bust.

It has a JavaScript framework (Blaze), but also works with Angular or React.

It's tied to Mongo, but this release announcement is about loosening that bond.

[btown]

To be fair to the GP, this view-layer-independence is very new, only officially supported since summer. Very reasonable to see it as all-in looking any time before.