I wouldn't call it all or nothing these days. If you don't like Blaze (Meteor's reactive front end package - https://www.meteor.com/blaze https://www.meteor.com

I wouldn't call it all or nothing these days. If you don't like Blaze (Meteor's reactive front end package - https://www.meteor.com/blaze https://www.meteor.com/blaze) You can exclude it and use another one - here's an example app the React team created https://github.com/reactjs/react-meteor https://github.com/reactjs/react-meteor