I'm considering using meteor for a small project currently on my plate at work because I really love the idea of only writing the data model once and using that in both the front and back-ends.
Absolutely. The sheer simplicity of Meteor is taking me back to the days of hacking together simple web pages with HTML, CSS, and a sprinkling of JavaScript, only now it's possible to build much more feature-rich creations. :)
David, thanks a bundle for making your book available for free online, a decision so unselfish and so revealing of who you are and how much you love Meteor.
We're a small dev shop currently researching and evaluating Meteor for an in-house HTML5/PhoneGap hybrid mobile app. What we haven't found yet is a definitive, best-practice article or guide on how to "Meteor-enable" or integrate Meteor with the front-end Javascript UI frameworks we use or plan to use (DevExpress DevExtreme, Kendo UI, Polymer, Google's Web Starter Kit).
We're thinking that there must be a clear, definitive "right way" to get these frameworks work smoothly with Meteor. We haven't found such a resource yet to guide us through, and we're still looking.
It's an exciting time to be in software :)