I've played with meteor a bit and and also hacked on drorm's mysql back-end: https://github.com/drorm/meteor-sql https://github.com/drorm/meteor-sql It works

I've played with meteor a bit and and also hacked on drorm's mysql back-end: https://github.com/drorm/meteor-sql https://github.com/drorm/meteor-sql It works for some cases, but it quite limited in the type of database tables it will support. And in the end it's polling mysql for changes to feed to meteor clients. I also added meteor support to a leaflet-draw package to allow users to share drawing on a map: http://leafletdraw.meteor.com/ http://leafletdraw.meteor.com/ Powerful and fun!