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Re: Integrating React with Meteor

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But at the expense of performance? I've written a number of applications in Meteor and continually struggle to scale them, even to tens of concurrent users.

Well http://mostexclusivewebsite.com/ currently has 46,000 users concurrently connected, in-line, receiving live updates, waiting for a ticket. So yeah, I would go so far as to say that Meteor can be scaled pretty well.

I've just tried to access the site and it's failing to load half the time, and the other half it's taking over a minute to load. It's awesome you're getting traffic but I'm not sure you can say you've successfully scaled your app right at the moment.

Re: Integrating React with Meteor

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I build stuff with React but never tried with Meteor. But I looked at it, and if you watch the introduction video where he creates something and deploy in like 2 minutes you would go wow as well. It's definitely the most exciting "new" thing I've seen along with React.

Rapid prototyping is an easy win. The real question is how a framework holds up in production. A lot of gripe from long time users of AngularJS comes from Angular's problems in real-world production scenarios (e.g. large amount of data means two-way binding kills performance but two-way binding is what makes the prototypes so compelling; third party directives make it easy to do all kinds of things but writing your o…

> The real question is how a framework holds up in production

You're completely right, and that's why I'm also very skeptical about this framework. I'll see how it holds up in a year or two before using it.

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