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by shams93 4046 days ago
Lol Meteor just literally saved my bacon, the combination of meteor + ionic enabled me to build an entire app in less than two weeks working part time on it and if I hadn't told the client it wasn't native there was no way for them to tell, the performance is that good. Plus the error messaging is awesome and the isometric approach is just a huge win, the previous version of the product was in angular + rails, industry standard but slow as hell, absolutely did not perform like a native mobile app, but Meteor is just fantastic in my experience for extreme starup scenarios where we are going with Mongo anyways. Certainly if I needed to tie into legacy sql based systems I would be looking at loopback, but with lookback you are still stuck with the weight of the other available front end frameworks and the back end is easier, but you still have to do tons of boiler plate, except perhaps with react + loopback in the case of place a really modern front end on a legacy system while still having ok performance. Meteor feels native because you're not issuing all this old ajax, its data format is even smaller and tighter than json.