What is nice about meteor is how quickly you can get off the ground and build something with it. Then you realize: I have no idea how this stuff works. Is it se

What is nice about meteor is how quickly you can get off the ground and build something with it. Then you realize: I have no idea how this stuff works. Is it secure? When do things update? Is there too much magic? But if you spend a bit of time learning how meteor’s core packages work (deps, ddp, livedata, blaze, etc) and how they work together — almost all of the apprehension disappears. I recommend digging into the Deps package first, it powers reactivity and is surprisingly simple (only 1 kb). EventedMind has great videos explaining reactivity and Deps https://www.eventedmind.com/classes/meteor-meteor-reactivity-with-deps/meteor-what-is-reactivity https://www.eventedmind.com/classes/meteor-meteor-reactivity... Meteor also started putting together a manual to explain the core concepts http://manual.meteor.com http://manual.meteor.com — the first chapter is about the Deps package. With any new concept there is a learning curve. But I believe the concepts meteor introduce are too powerful to ignore. The saying is that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic :)