Meteor was/and is a fantastic community of very generous JavaScript developers. This is great news.
When it arrived and so important to me professionally. I used it to build my first web apps. I can't tell you how many times I struggled to get started with Rails, Meteor was a foothold beyond compare, they were incredibly focused on keeping the stack accessible to beginners.
They had free command line deployments – meant I could ship projects to friends, before I knew anything about hosting a web server, which was so exciting and really kept me motivated.
The way I do full-stack now, with declarative UI, apollo, Node.js – it's all pretty much the same idea as Meteor apps, just with even bigger communities that really out competed the meteor strack. You could say they're victims of JS explosion/success.
Now I have fantastic job as a full-stack dev, and I doubt I would of made it without Meteor and Discover Meteor PDF. So many cool projects like Apollo, Vue and Storybook came from people involved in the Meteor community.
There's still a huge gap in making accessible full-stack frameworks for web apps. This project is worth a look https://github.com/VulcanJS/Vulcan if you know I mean.
I'm in exactly the same position as you. I was overwhelmed with building web applications (coming from a self taught design and then web development background). I found Meteor and quickly started building increasingly complex applications (without having to learn things like webpack etc).
Now, a good few years later I'm a full stack developer with a great job building some really cool and cutting edge software. I've learned all the things that Meteor did for me, but I wouldn't have got here without it.
I really think that with the right decisions, Meteor can rise to be a top tier JS framework. Very hopeful to see where it goes.
When it arrived and so important to me professionally. I used it to build my first web apps. I can't tell you how many times I struggled to get started with Rails, Meteor was a foothold beyond compare, they were incredibly focused on keeping the stack accessible to beginners.
They had free command line deployments – meant I could ship projects to friends, before I knew anything about hosting a web server, which was so exciting and really kept me motivated.
The way I do full-stack now, with declarative UI, apollo, Node.js – it's all pretty much the same idea as Meteor apps, just with even bigger communities that really out competed the meteor strack. You could say they're victims of JS explosion/success.
Now I have fantastic job as a full-stack dev, and I doubt I would of made it without Meteor and Discover Meteor PDF. So many cool projects like Apollo, Vue and Storybook came from people involved in the Meteor community.
There's still a huge gap in making accessible full-stack frameworks for web apps. This project is worth a look https://github.com/VulcanJS/Vulcan if you know I mean.