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by ekryski 3745 days ago
Sorry you feel that we are being dishonest. It's definitely not intended. I respectfully challenge the claim that Meteor is currently real-time and Feathers is not. Just because we're not (currently) doing oplog tailing on Mongo and data diffing does not mean Feathers isn't real-time, instead we sync up things at the service layer.

We do have plans to (optionally) support "real-time" all the way from the database as well and we are currently working on something similar to Apollo and Falcor. Can't do it all at once with no financial support.

If you feel things could be better and are interested in helping us achieve what you think is a more justified stance on being "real-time" then by all means PRs are more than welcome!

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It's misleading and almost innacurrate. But yes I understand how time consuming and painstaking it is to build basically anything substantial. I'd just do more with realtime before u go comparing yourself to Meteor. Also the meteor features you listed are still only maybe 25% of all the realtime functionality Meteor has over Feathers. Fortunately things are changing thanks to GraphQL, so you will be able to offer thorough real time soon, but the rest of NPM will be able to access it just as easily. The NPM ecosystem has done a phenomenal job of killing the need for frameworks. I myself am basically a Meteor refugee. It's awesome, but you just don't need it or any framework anymore if you are a serious developer building professional apps.