The point the article is trying to make is that their application has so little server-side business logic, they can avoid it all together and not write any ser

The point the article is trying to make is that their application has so little server-side business logic, they can avoid it all together and not write any server-side code. Meteor, despite its ease of syncing subsets of data to users, gives you full control to execute RPCs and run custom logic, talk to other backends, send emails, etc.