Are there good reasons to use Meteor in 2017? [closed]

Question

Meteor was supposed to revolutionize web development on node a few years back, making it easy to write compelling reactive applications. I'm not very familiar with the history of the platform, but I know that since last year most of the development effort has withdrawn and gone to work on other projects. I'm trying to decide on a framework for my next application, so I wonder if Meteor is still a viable choice for the purpose, as opposed to just using plain node+react/angular/etc. These are the pros and cons I've experienced so far:

Pros:

• Easy to prototype
• Javascript everywhere
• Publication/Subscription model is kind of neat
• Reactive

Cons:

• Performance is hard to get right using pub/sub
• Framework updates don't come as often as they used to
• Locks you in with no escape
• Less people write Meteor packages recently
• Adds a lot of overhead

Answer 1

Your question is likely to get closed, so I'll chime in here super quickly:

I've been using Meteor for the past three years or so, and I've finally decided to stop using it in favor of the following stack:

• Client-side
  • React
  • Apollo
  • AWS Cognito (for user auth)
• Server-side
  • Express
  • GraphQL (Apollo implementation)

I'm moving for some of the reasons you list, mostly overhead and adding too much weight to apps that could be a lot more lightweight and simple. I'm even thinking of going serverless and just having my GraphQL endpoint powered by Lambda.