# Meteor

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Meteor and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** A long-used JavaScript full-stack framework that people recommend for its performance gains and gentler learning curve; critics say it lacks observability.

## Why people recommend it

- Long-time favorite for JavaScript developers (2 comments): "It was the first framework I started my js journey with." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438442)) "its still my fav framework to this day" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437844))
- Faster, easier to learn (2 comments): "Version 3.5 was recently released with major performance and scalability enhancements" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49430333)) "now it takes much less learning to use a fast web framework" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396133))

## What people warn about

- Lacks observability when self-hosted on AWS (1 comments): "we ended up moving Meteor into our own custom AWS cloud because of lack of observability" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875324))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Ruby on Rails](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruby-on-rails.md): 337 recommend
- [Django](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django.md): 277 recommend
- [Next.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/next-js.md): 127 recommend
- [Phoenix Framework](https://hackerapproved.com/p/phoenix.md): 85 recommend
- [Laravel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/laravel.md): 71 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Meteor", https://hackerapproved.com/p/meteor/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).