I've been working with the framework almost daily and regarding your comments: 1.) Yep. I've gone from a jQuery-mostly front-end dev to being able to build ful

I've been working with the framework almost daily and regarding your comments: 1.) Yep. I've gone from a jQuery-mostly front-end dev to being able to build full blown apps inside of 6 months. Not only that, the apps run really well. 2.) Incredibly. Even without the meteor.com service, it's super easy to deploy using things like Demeteorizer (https://github.com/onmodulus/demeteorizer https://github.com/onmodulus/demeteorizer) which strips down a Meteor app to a raw node.js app that can be deployed anywhere (that supports node, of course) in < 2 minutes. 3.) My favorite part about the framework is that the core devs have meetups/hackathons frequently to talk about progress on development, show off demos of pre-releases, and allow community devs to showcase their own work (if you're curious, I highly recommend checking out the Devshop videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MeteorVideos?feature=watch https://www.youtube.com/user/MeteorVideos?feature=watch). Even if it doesn't sound like your bag of chips, at least do what the OP did and check out Discover Meteor: http://discovermeteor.com http://discovermeteor.com. It's worth the day or two it will take you to complete.