A loose analogy is, “Meteor is to Node as Rails is to Ruby.” It’s a large, opinionated framework that uses Node on the server. Node itself is just a low-level framework providing functions for sending and receiving HTTP requests and performing other I/O. Meteor is radically ambitious: By default, every page it serves is actually … Read more
Let’s start with the deletions, then we’ll move on to the reinstallations. If you ever installed Meteorite, uninstall and delete it:sudo mrt uninstall sudo mrt uninstall –system rm -rf ~/.meteorite Then delete Meteor:sudo rm /usr/local/bin/meteor rm -rf ~/.meteor Now start over at the beginning: Repair permissions if necessary:sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.npm Reinstall Meteor:curl https://install.meteor.com/ … Read more
Express = MVC Framework built in Javascript and is powered by Node. Meteor = Full Stack that has the front-end and back-end components to build a real-time application. To create the same implementation of Meteor using Express, you need to look at the MEAN stack, which includes MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node. You can create … Read more
If you’re just after console logging here’s what I’d do: Shouldn’t be any need for those packages just to do console logging.