I have been learning web development using flask web framework. I have built small projects with meteor. I have tried to implement a project on both frameworks in order to determine the easy of implementing features and overall easy of development.
Firstly how does meteor ensure security when submitting information via forms? Post/Get. You hear stories of how JavaScript is insecure and persons can execute code in the browser and compromise your website. While this is corrected with meteor’s publish and subscribe methods.
Flask allows you to use different databases with relative easy. I got postgres working but that took some time to get it to work properly. With Meteor the integration with mongodb is seamless. From what I have been following I know Apollo would allow you to use different data backends but not sure how this would work with meteor.
The development process for me was slower in flask than meteor; the automatic reload is really great.
The main goal of the website was to display population data in a chart using vis.js. So the idea was to allow the user to select fields and variables via a form and the database would return what the user wanted and display it as a simple graph. In flask I had to deal with redirects in form submissions when handling POSTS. In meteor using jquery was easy and I as able to get the desired effects and it had a more of an app feel when handling click events and there was no page reloads to deal with. I guess that’s one of the benefits real-time reactivity.
Overall I think meteor is well suit for developing interactive websites which makes the experience pleasant for users of the website while cutting down development time. When developing, as an amateur, not having to configure everything and having meteor integrate with technologies that are modern is a sure benefit. Flask, I will still continue to build on my knowledge of it as it has a similar feel to meteor and it makes working with different databases easy.