I'm happy to share the reasons:
- with Meteor, I have all my services (front end, back-end, etc) in one place, running on one dyno, with automatic deploy via GitHub
- my Meteor set up has stylus, minification, etc, configured
- I have libraries for routing, state management, and etc handily available
Ultimately, it's a choice based on personal productivity and convenience. The whole project took me a couple of days, whereas with the JS ecosystem, I'd probably have to spend that time configuring tools.
