Meteor users anyone?
Tech trends come and go like the wind.
Seems like the Indie Hackers community has a large firebase community which is great. It's a solid platform to build things fast and backed by Google. I've built several apps with it myself.
Meteor was quite the kid a few years back. Recently, it's fallen behind the trends but still provides a fast, robust developer experience on-par with firebase. It's quite the framework when you want to build complex real-time apps.
Anyone using Meteor to build their project or startup these days? Would love to share experiences and tips regarding this!
I used it for internal projects for a while, its a great tool once you get a hold of it and you can build stuff pretty fast. I actually learned some tricks that I transferred to my usual LAMP stack like using inline php for embedding some code into parts of html that I didn't thought of before.
Meteor is more mature now and if you're thinking about doing some one page dynamic saas like trello/chat/drawing app I would probably suggest you to try doing it Meteor. On the other hand, if you are already good with node/express/other js frameworks and tools - you might not need meteor because you can ramp up your stack pretty quickly enough so that Meteor's good parts(that is bundling js stack for you) are not needed and instead you could be dealing with Meteorish stuff trying to open the hood for some lower level tweaks and thats not what its good for.
To summarize, if you want to do one-page app fast and you don't have a lot of js knowledge(but you need to have some) - try Meteor, maybe it'll fit you. If you already good with some js stack - go with it. At the end of the day there's a cost of learning and if your goal is to build a product - go with what you're experienced with.
And about me - I've got some ideas for one-page projects that I would probably choose Meteor for and I've seen kind of middle-big projects deployed with it and that gives me confidence I can use it for mine.