Your mistake was picking Meteor because it was "the hottest kid on the block". It never was as popular as it was made out to be, it was just hyped to no end and

Your mistake was picking Meteor because it was "the hottest kid on the block". It never was as popular as it was made out to be, it was just hyped to no end and super appealing to people who were new to JS (because realtime/webscale/buzzwords). Today Meteor has mostly overcome its initial NIH obsession and thus mostly become irrelevant unless you're already a Meteor user. It's never the right choice to jump on whatever bandwagon is all the rage at any given moment. Just look at what's been around and is still seeing active development if you want something with a long lifetime. Personally to a newcomer to JS who wants something that'll work for a while I would probably recommend Ember or if they want something slightly more newsworthy I would recommend Angular. On the other hand if you want to learn JS as a language and aren't afraid to go through a number of iterations of picking and discarding libraries, I would recommend what I prefer myself: React, followed up by Redux once you've outgrown toy applications.