[NickBusey]

As someone who also jumped on the Meteor bandwagon, and is now stuck maintaining a project created with it, run away and do not look back.

It is not being maintained by anyone as far as I can tell, more and more packages are breaking by the week it seems like, and the basic 'features' listed 'on the box' of Meteor have never worked.

Save yourself some headache and pick a stack with an active community.

[kabes]

1. It is being maintained (albeit less active), version 1.9 is in the works. Communication could improve a lot though.

2. What's so hard about maintaining the Meteor project? It's been mostly backwards compatible since versions before 1.0 (released over 5 years ago, when the JS ecosystem was a very different universe). What other JS framework has a comparible track record towards backwards compatability?

3. Third party packages may break and become unmaintained, but this is just as much true on NPM. In the end Meteor is mostly a build-tool (and a pretty good one, with zero-configuration, code splitting, ...) creating a Node application with full NPM compatability.

[diveanon]

I was afraid I would hear that. Best of luck, don't forget to use all your vacation time.