[gremlinsinc]

Probably not dead yet, but in 2018 it makes more sense to use lightweight tools and frameworks that you can easily extend and make your own, and setup microservices.

Vue + Koajs might be good if you want to stick with js, vue/laravel go well together, or vue+(pick one: django, phoenix, rails, flask, sinatra, etc...).

With react native or ionic framework you can easily built mobile apps for ios/android off the same api, so meteor doesn't have a lot of advantages. It was nice for a time, but I think JS is moving in different directions now.

[aogaili]

so how is vue/laravel any better then vue/meteor, react/meteor or angular/meteor which are all officially supported?

react native and ionic framework all can be used with meteor in which meteor can be used as a backend (providing API such as rest, apollo or DDP) and many active projects used this approach.

[gremlinsinc]

As far as I know Meteor is losing a lot of support, while I used to like meteor, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole today because of some of the concerns others have brought up.. I'd say using microservices/api on any platform -python, koa, express, java, go, elixir, laravel, etc.. with vue or react on the frontend is the current trend/best practice.

For me, I know laravel inside/out. For me it's way better because I can build an app in a week using Vue+Laravel. Laravel also isn't coupled to mongodb which, personally I cannot stand nosql db's. There's been so many cases where companies have used nosql and then had to migrate to postgres because they need 'acid', or other features. PG has json data types, so there's no reason not to use it as a doc store within a rdbm.