From the article: "So, in the last 2 years, we’ve had number of frameworks that simplify the client side development – Backbone, Ember, Derby and Meteor – and

From the article: "So, in the last 2 years, we’ve had number of frameworks that simplify the client side development – Backbone, Ember, Derby and Meteor – and my favorite one, AngularJS." These are not all the same. Meteor and Derby are full, integrated stacks (from data to UI and back). These 2 frameworks aim to simplify not just the client-side, but more significantly they aim to simplify the client -> server API -> database communication. Backbone, Ember, and AngularJS are client-side MV* frameworks with the aim of providing structure to client-side SPAs, and where the developer can use whatever server-side framework they choose. Lastly, Backbone/Ember/AngularJS/another MV* framework can be used with Meteor to help structure client-side code, so this is not really an either/or decision.