Meteor made me move from a Front-End Developer, to actually understanding databases, models, controllers… and even choosing a view layer. No matter what, you can still build a basic Meteor app very rapidly, you don’t have to choose React or Angular as a view… or wait for whatever database, router, etc… I think the fact Meteor is incorporating new tech a huge selling point for them.
I think the main problem is businesses picking up Meteor… and jobs being offered. I’m seeing more React and Angular jobs than any Meteor jobs. And that’s probably because they’re all set in their business stack ways, and just changing out the view layer in their apps. I wish there was more companies switching out their Rails stack to Meteor, or whatever “java” stacks. I would love to just work on Meteor… but unfortunately unless you develop a business from scratch, not many companies outside of California are even aware of it, it seems.
I’m spending most of my time just learning React and build tools, but I wishhhh i could just work in Meteor ugh