Re:Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end ...
by extrapickles on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:40PM
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It looks to me like Horizon and Meteor are solving problems in different scopes of the application stack.
Horizon looks to be more like the Minimongo/DDP/Accounts parts of Meteor, and doesn't help with any more of the stack like Meteor does (eg: In Horizon its more up to you to wire it into Angular/React/etc). Meteor is more of a platform and Horizon is more of a real-time client DB and account framework.
If I had to choose between the two, Horizon would be good for if you had a strong opinion/technical need for very specific coupling between UI and DB, and Meteor for when you don't or need to get something out very quickly (eg: this weeks internal CRUD app for a few dozen users).
Horizon looks to be more like the Minimongo/DDP/Accounts parts of Meteor, and doesn't help with any more of the stack like Meteor does (eg: In Horizon its more up to you to wire it into Angular/React/etc). Meteor is more of a platform and Horizon is more of a real-time client DB and account framework.
If I had to choose between the two, Horizon would be good for if you had a strong opinion/technical need for very specific coupling between UI and DB, and Meteor for when you don't or need to get something out very quickly (eg: this weeks internal CRUD app for a few dozen users).