We used it to build an enterprise app for the fishing industry. Real-time was the key feature. 4mb downloads on simple table view with real time edits by multiple users. At the time we were reading Discover Metoer book by Sascha Greif and trying to figure things out using Atmosphere packages. Derby.js was another consideration but since Meteor was more popular we chose it.
Anyways looking back, we used so many exotic new tech stacks to do really simple applications which cost more and didn't really give other edge. I quit using Javascript on the server side and started to pick up Python.
I don't plan on going back to Javasscript from Python but Python really lacks a real-time framework like Meteor and still Python to Javascript compiler has not really picked up momentum from what I can see.
I think if Python does not bring itself to the browser soon it could mean trouble for future relevance. The fact that we have MEAN stacks and such pisses me off. You don't need that shit to write your god damn Facebook clone, just use Python or PHP. OR the famous writing a REST api before you write your website is the even crazier one. It's not too late to abstract out a restful backend from your web app until you decide to write blackberry, android, iphone apps.
Anyways looking back, we used so many exotic new tech stacks to do really simple applications which cost more and didn't really give other edge. I quit using Javascript on the server side and started to pick up Python.
I don't plan on going back to Javasscript from Python but Python really lacks a real-time framework like Meteor and still Python to Javascript compiler has not really picked up momentum from what I can see.
I think if Python does not bring itself to the browser soon it could mean trouble for future relevance. The fact that we have MEAN stacks and such pisses me off. You don't need that shit to write your god damn Facebook clone, just use Python or PHP. OR the famous writing a REST api before you write your website is the even crazier one. It's not too late to abstract out a restful backend from your web app until you decide to write blackberry, android, iphone apps.