Give me a box of boards and nails any day. All my ikea furniture is rickety and much of it is starting to look dated.
I just spent a good amount of time over the last few months building a prototype for an application in Meteor and it has been a joy.
Out of the box I got happy, grokable app/server communication, I got sane user account tools and I got a build process that works well enough that I haven't thought about it at all. I almost never need to look at documentation, I just build features. I've only needed a few community packages, and the ones I have used have been working pretty well for me.
I feel like I've been living the dream. So much ceremony and overhead just melted away.
I'd be curious to hear what kind of issues people have hit with blaze/meteor package management/etc that make them want to swap in react/npm/etc. (I spent the better part of 2015 with react/flux and it would take a lot to get me to switch back).
> Give me a box of boards and nails any day. All my ikea furniture is rickety and much of it is starting to look dated.
This seems to contradict the rest of your post where you go on to talk up the plug and playness of meteor. That's much more like ikea furniture than a board and nails. The board and nails approach requires you to do all the planning that meteor gives you out of the box.
I guess I think those things to be the building materials, and folder structure/routing/etc to be the stuff I don't mind making my self. I get how this might be opposite for others though.
I just spent a good amount of time over the last few months building a prototype for an application in Meteor and it has been a joy.
Out of the box I got happy, grokable app/server communication, I got sane user account tools and I got a build process that works well enough that I haven't thought about it at all. I almost never need to look at documentation, I just build features. I've only needed a few community packages, and the ones I have used have been working pretty well for me.
I feel like I've been living the dream. So much ceremony and overhead just melted away.
I'd be curious to hear what kind of issues people have hit with blaze/meteor package management/etc that make them want to swap in react/npm/etc. (I spent the better part of 2015 with react/flux and it would take a lot to get me to switch back).