# Angular 2 & Meteor 1.3 — Friends or Foes?

#### Answering: Angular 2 is a platform, Meteor 1.3 is a platform — can they co-exist?

The short Answer is: indeed.

*   Angular 2 is a web / front end framework. It provides the best tools exist to build a web application.
*   Meteor is a full stack platform focusing on server, client and client-server communication. They provide a choice of front end frameworks, angular 2 being one of them.

This drawing is a re-use from Angular 1, but the roles did not change, so you can see who is doing what in the combined platform:

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1714681646864/5c864bec-279e-4dfa-bca9-047731b9f4c4.jpeg)

This question, infact, is a reincarnation of a previous question:

[**MeteorJS vs AngularJS ain't a thing**  
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#### What’s in the Angular 2 Platform?

Here is what Brad Green showed in the 2016 NG-Conf keynote as the Angular 2 platform.

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1714681648370/53e35246-31d7-45de-8df6-20ea6a7fd7bd.jpeg)

Everything on this list is aimed for web development: from template management to routing, from ui components to web routing. Yep, Angular 2 (as well as 1) is focused on the web, and is very opinionated on it.

#### The Meteor Platform

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1714681649500/3ee89e50-f759-4ca8-bde4-5df85966660f.jpeg)

Totally different — right? It focuses on the client AND on the server. In fact — Meteor’s strength lies in the real time data integration between its parts.

#### Will they collide?

Here are some potential areas for collisions:

*   CLI — how should you scaffold? using meteor create or ng new? And for the angular part — can I use the component / directive / pipe / service generation if I am inside the meteor echo system? Will the ng cli files live peacefully with the meteor echosystem?
*   Mobile — Meteor uses Cordova with a wrapper and יot code push. Angular introduce the new concept on progressive web apps as well as native code generation ( NativeBridge) without a webview. Reconciling the 2 will probably take some effort, but is very likely to come.