I've been working with the framework almost daily and regarding your comments:
1.) Yep. I've gone from a jQuery-mostly front-end dev to being able to build full blown apps inside of 6 months. Not only that, the apps run really well.
2.) Incredibly. Even without the meteor.com service, it's super easy to deploy using things like Demeteorizer (https://github.com/onmodulus/demeteorizer) which strips down a Meteor app to a raw node.js app that can be deployed anywhere (that supports node, of course) in < 2 minutes.
3.) My favorite part about the framework is that the core devs have meetups/hackathons frequently to talk about progress on development, show off demos of pre-releases, and allow community devs to showcase their own work (if you're curious, I highly recommend checking out the Devshop videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MeteorVideos?feature=watch).
Even if it doesn't sound like your bag of chips, at least do what the OP did and check out Discover Meteor: http://discovermeteor.com. It's worth the day or two it will take you to complete.
The core devs are great with how active they are. Some have even reached out to me on twitter when I've mentioned them. It's great to see how much passion they have. What sort of product are you working on with meteor?
These look great! Need any help with development? I'm about junior-dev skill level but am actively looking to get into some side projects until I land a job in the industry now that I'm out of the programming bootcamp I was at. I'd ton a bunch of C/Python/Ruby before that, but it really solidified my core software dev skillset and is allowing me to learn at a rapid pace and I'm loving it :)
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I've been working with the framework almost daily and regarding your comments:
1.) Yep. I've gone from a jQuery-mostly front-end dev to being able to build full blown apps inside of 6 months. Not only that, the apps run really well.
2.) Incredibly. Even without the meteor.com service, it's super easy to deploy using things like Demeteorizer (https://github.com/onmodulus/demeteorizer) which strips down a Meteor app to a raw node.js app that can be deployed anywhere (that supports node, of course) in < 2 minutes.
3.) My favorite part about the framework is that the core devs have meetups/hackathons frequently to talk about progress on development, show off demos of pre-releases, and allow community devs to showcase their own work (if you're curious, I highly recommend checking out the Devshop videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MeteorVideos?feature=watch).
Even if it doesn't sound like your bag of chips, at least do what the OP did and check out Discover Meteor: http://discovermeteor.com. It's worth the day or two it will take you to complete.
The core devs are great with how active they are. Some have even reached out to me on twitter when I've mentioned them. It's great to see how much passion they have. What sort of product are you working on with meteor?
Right now I have two available: https://properapp.com and http://whatwhenapp.com.
These look great! Need any help with development? I'm about junior-dev skill level but am actively looking to get into some side projects until I land a job in the industry now that I'm out of the programming bootcamp I was at. I'd ton a bunch of C/Python/Ruby before that, but it really solidified my core software dev skillset and is allowing me to learn at a rapid pace and I'm loving it :)