I also did a reasonable size project in Meteor, was pretty quick to get going, but the nightmare started as the project evolved, packages got abandoned, and Mon

I also did a reasonable size project in Meteor, was pretty quick to get going, but the nightmare started as the project evolved, packages got abandoned, and Mongo was really very very average. The real value proposition of Meteor wasn't really it's data reactivity (still nice to have), it was having a prebaked authentication / data backend from the get go.