[keithwhor]

Well, you can start using JS for your API server, at least. Nodal [1], a full-featured API server and framework for iojs was just released yesterday with full PostgreSQL integration. (Migration and schema support, to boot.) :)

I'm not a huge fan of isomorphic JavaScript. While it seems great for prototyping, I have doubts on its stability, security, and ability to scale. It seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to just having the technology to write web-client and web-server code in the same language and the emergence of SPAs.

The thing is, we've had working client-server application architecture (which is what an SPA is) for decades. Every multiplayer game you've ever played. Chat programs. Etc. Nobody would risk the headache of tightly-coupling your data layer, presentation layer, and business layer just to save a few lines of code. We separate our concerns in our code itself with MVC frameworks, why are isomorphic frameworks trying to tightly-couple our actual application layers? It's a little bit contradictory to me.

While Meteor seems like a great tool for a couple of newbie developers to rapidly prototype an idea, I'm still not convinced it has the potential to grow into a reasonable architecture.

[1] https://github.com/keithwhor/nodal