Meteor is described as 'Set of new technologies for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time. It is built around Smart Packages: little bundles of code that can run on a client, inside a cloud service, or both, and that can manage their lifetime inside the modern distributed' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Meteor for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Meteor alternative is Ruby on Rails, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Meteor are FeathersJS, Express, Derby and GUN.