Which is faster Meteor or Node.js?

Node.js Development

To know the degree of fastness among Meteor and Node.js it is little complex to give the view. Here the comparison becomes invalid as Meteor is based on Node.js.

Let’s consider the following behaviors of Meteor and Node.js to conclude the result from different point of views. According to end-user, for someone using an application, the app written in Meteor will relatively be seen faster than the app written directly on Node.js.

Along with this, the Meteor app will also consume less server resources, yet it might put more load on the database. Using Meteor app facilitates you client-side code as well as server-side code. You may operate the client-side code easily on your browser. It uses Node.js to run the server-side part of your application. From this point of view, how Meteor could become faster as the part of its performance is dependent on Node.js. Here the reasons to prove that Meteor is faster and use less resource, though its part performance is dependent on Node:

1.    Meteor seemed faster to users because of presence of latency compensation in it. It means, when you perform something, your screen is automatically updated as soon as it is processed, without delaying to wait for your changes to go all the way across the internet to the server and comes back. Thus, elimination of the round trip time could be the great achievement.

2.    Meteor helps to shift a lot of work from the server to the client. For traditional web applications, the responsibility for rendering the user interface lies with the server. Here all these works are performed by the clients. The server only manage to send the client an occasional piece of data when something from data is needed. As a result, the Node.js process is having least work to do and could run faster. Finally, the Meteor apps generally have some form of live updating data, more load is given towards the backend database server.

These are the ways due to which Meteor is considered faster. Yet all these could be performed without using Meteor. Hence, by hand coding. Directly on Node.js. It has been done by some active developers who had practiced it on few apps like Trello. But this will lead to increasing the length of the work as it could only be done by some experts in integrating a number of different technologies.

Meteor is one way to write Node.js applications that are seemed very fast while using and also uses less server resources. Still, technically it is not faster because using it, you can build a faster app but not client-side frameworks, or just a subset of frameworks and libraries which are used by Meteor.

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