You're missing that the pitch with these things is there is no server code as such. For Firebase, yes that is part of the pitch. Personally the use case for F

You're missing that the pitch with these things is there is no server code as such. For Firebase, yes that is part of the pitch. Personally the use case for Firebase doesn't really appeal to me. For Meteor, it's the opposite. The fact that you can write some server-only code is a plus.