[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.