[jonlachlan]

You can weigh the trade-off between needing to configure your environment with what Meteor gives you. I would say Meteor has a value proposition that's definitely worth looking at. The list of things it helps you with is more than most other frameworks, and at the same time it's modular so you can swap in components that are better for your use-case. You also have the benefit of still being in the JavaScript/NPM ecosystem, which is easy to take advantage of.