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For me it's Meteor for the last five years with the Mongo database subscribed in real time and Blaze as the default html template engine. Some people think it's a broken solution, but I love to code with it ^_^ I use to be a PHP lover, but in the end you'll write javascript. Writing JS all the way from database to server to clients just rocks IMHO.


I think your comparison with Meteor is not fair. You are not obliged to use Meteor in back and front, you can have a meteor backend and load a DDP client in about any language. And as I'm doing one right now you can have a only front application talking to a rest server. So it's more flexible than what you tell in your comparison. Also I might not be fair because I'm a Meteor addict :D


Thanks, we'll revisit this and check our comparison, we haven't used Meteor extensively so far, so we might have missed stuff. The reason we have that comparison section is that we get asked about this quite a lot, so we wanted to have a public statement on what we think the main differences are from similar products.


To comment further on that, here's some more information for you guys based on the comparison notes:

* Meteor is a solution for both frontend and backend development, while Telepat focuses on backend functionality.

- You can use it for just the backend if you want. This statement is true, but just noting that you don't have to use both sides.

* When using Meteor in the backend, you also need to use it in your frontend app. Telepat lets you use any frontend framework.

- You don't have to use it with just Meteor's front end (which is I think what you meant). It has integrations with other front end frameworks and you could use it with just about any front end framework as long as you add some boilerplate to communicate with the client-side store and DDP.

* Meteor is a solution for creating webapps, and running on mobile devices works only via webviews. Telepat enables native clients and native functionality for mobile or embedded.

- Not true actually. They make it the easiest to get mobile apps out with Cordova and webviews, but there are various libraries out there like the ObjectiveC-DDP or meteor-ios library that integrates natively with iOS applications.

* Telepat allows using adapters for 3rd party databases, messaging queues and push transports.

- You can do this with Meteor as well and integrate NPM packages.

I hope that helps shed some light on the comparison.

The platform looks great though. I'll definitely have to take a look at it sometime soon.


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