Chapter 2. Developing and Testing an Advanced Application

The popularity of frameworks such as Ruby On Rails is because of two reasons. One is the ecosystem where one can find plugins and utilities to solve common problems and other is the scaffolding. MeteorJS has also earned countless contributors, which ultimately created a wonderful ecosystem. Also, as an added advantage, developers can use the Node.js ecosystem. Developers can find a lot of useful MeteorJS packages in the MeteorJS ecosystem, which is called atmosphere. Visit atmosphere (https://atmospherejs.com/) once and check the enormous amount of packages available for development.

Scaffolding enables anyone to kick-start a big application in minutes. Frameworks such as Ruby On Rails, YII, and Zend have mature scaffolding, which helps anyone with less knowledge about the framework to get started easily. Scaffolding reduces a lot of work and, therefore, developers can use their precious time in developing the application...