You can turn it off with about 10-15 lines of code. It has been a while, but IIRC they just cache way too much data. Wrap their caching functions to forget the

You can turn it off with about 10-15 lines of code. It has been a while, but IIRC they just cache way too much data. Wrap their caching functions to forget the data when you know you don't need it. Still, I wouldn't use Meteor for anything requiring scale. Besides, it's way too easy to introduce state on the server, but there shouldn't be state on the server. I think polling is ultimately a better model because it allows each component to throttle itself at whatever pace is necessary. I can see meteor being useful for applications that required a shared state on the server (or in Redis or something) like in online games, chat, or any other online multiuser application. But then Meteor became a tool for common websites that didn't actually need reactivity, and people started abusing server state, reactivity, etc. I think at some point, the community was begging for options to turn reactivity off in cert