[bpatrianakos]

Yeah, I feel the sentiment. When I read this I was like "really? 5 minutes? Are we really learning anything other than how to follow instructions here?". But I'm in a bad mood so I have to admit I'm being unfair. There's a part of me that's getting a little tired of these kinds of posts because they're often disingenuous. You're really not going to learn or build anything of real use in under 5 minutes. It's definitely a cool marketing ploy for both Meteor, who get some exposure, and Mailgun who may get some new paying customers.

But again, I'm being unfair. While what I said before still stands, there is the fact that I doubt anyone expects you to truly learn the framework in 5 minutes. It's just supposed to be an example of how easy it is to get started. And it works I guess. I personally have never gotten much out of the whole "X in Y time" genre of tutorials but I'm sure others do. Because I'm not new to programming I prefer to take my time and build out my own ideas as I follow these things. So while I read them I'm not actually following each step. I'm just understanding how you get from A to B, translating that to other tasks, and using pieces of the articles as I need them to suit my purposes if that makes sense.