I've read through the documentation twice (once when it was released and again a week ago) and reviewed the basic demos. Meteor's front end structure seems like it's missing something. It has a data layer and a view / template layer but nothing else. No routing, controllers, etc.
Is there a good demo / tutorial that integrates these missing components, either from meteorite libs or well known projects like Angular or Backbone?
I agree, it's missing a good routing system. iron-router is a 3rd party solution but I didn't have good luck with it. Seems this is functionality that is core to the framework (it's hard to build anything more than a tech demo without routing).
Once you understand iron-router, which takes an hour or two of going through the documentation and trying examples, it really does everything you could ask a router to do. I think its worth a shot of trying it.
Is there a good demo / tutorial that integrates these missing components, either from meteorite libs or well known projects like Angular or Backbone?