Meteor
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A long-used JavaScript full-stack framework that people recommend for its performance gains and gentler learning curve; critics say it lacks observability.
A long-used JavaScript full-stack framework that people recommend for its performance gains and gentler learning curve; critics say it lacks observability.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Long-time favorite for JavaScript developers
“It was the first framework I started my js journey with.”
Comment from 7 Jun 2026 in “How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown” “its still my fav framework to this day”
Comment from 7 Jun 2026 in “How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown” Faster, easier to learn
“Version 3.5 was recently released with major performance and scalability enhancements”
Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript” “now it takes much less learning to use a fast web framework”
Comment from 22 Aug 2026 in “There's no reason for software to be slow anymore”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Lacks observability when self-hosted on AWS
“we ended up moving Meteor into our own custom AWS cloud because of lack of observability”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework”
Other web frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other web frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby on Rails | 337 | 145 | 70% | 12 | 14 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Django | 277 | 97 | 74% | 12 | 15 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Next.js | 127 | 256 | 33% | 12 | 3 yrs6 owners | — |
| Phoenix Framework | 85 | 11 | 89% | 12 | 8 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| MeteorThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Version 3.5 was recently released with major performance and scalability enhancements”
“now it takes much less learning to use a fast web framework”
“It was the first framework I started my js journey with.”
“its still my fav framework to this day”
“I'd much rather ... meteor create and get deterministic output than prompt an LLM”
“It was a different story back when eg meteorjs was the default”
“we ended up moving Meteor into our own custom AWS cloud because of lack of observability”
“it was hard/even impossible to bring different libraries”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.