Here we are talking about solutions to build web applications from the back-end side (including the database and the web server) to the front-end layer using only one language (JavaScript).
Let's face the truth: unlike other categories like front-end frameworks, there are very very few contenders in this category where Meteor is the king. We could mention DerbyJS as a contender but it has little traction.
In this category, Meteor is the pionner, with an active community and a strong eco-system, so it's not a surprise that it's known by 90% of people who anwsered the survey.
Meteor may be the most popular solution (more than 35,000 stars on Github), the "MEAN" (Mongo + Express + AngularJS + node.js) stack was used by almost twice more users in our survey (3000 vs 1700).
Moreover satisfaction level is better for Mean (66%) than for Meteor (59%).
Take MEAN, replace AngularJS by React-Redux and you get the MERN stack, the new fancy kid in town. It seems that many developers went from Angular to React and they seem to be very satisfied (an impressive 86%) while the total number of users is low compared to Meteor and MEAN (around 450).
FeathersJS and DoneJS got very little traction. DoneJS has not been updated for 6 months on Github.
FeathersJS seems to be more appropriate as an API layer, its service oriented architecture and its real-time capabilities provide a nice alternative to build decoupled applications, compared to full-stack frameworks. From a personnal point of view, I like this micro-service oriented approach over the monolithic approach flavoured by Meteor.
Meteor seems to play well with Apollo (a backend solution based on GraphQL) and Cordova (a tool to build native applications). ES6 got a low score despite the full support provided by Meteor latest releases.
The MEAN stack plays well with Angular and Angular2, and therefore Typescript. We can see also connections with Bower, Gulp and Grunt, which may remind memories to some of us.
In the contrary, the MERN stack connects to React, Redux and Webpack. These 3 technologies are often called "the modern stack" to build web application... but who knows if it will still be true in 2017 ?
About testing, MEAN users choose Jasmine while MERN users prefer Mocha.
44% of people who used a full-stack framework are happy with their solution (4 or 5 points on the scale). For them, we assume that those frameworks help them build quickly web applications.
34% of people who used a full-stack framework have a neutral point of view, so it seems that there is still room for improvement.
The remaining 21%, who have a negative feedback, may have been disappointed by things like "too much magic" (I am looking at you Meteor!) or "too many things to wire together" (something heard about Redux).
It's important to note that Meteor used to be a unique solution of its own, apart of npm eco-system with its own packaging system and its own templating engine. But things have changed since 1.3 release and it's now possible to build full-stack applications using React, ES6, npm module without any problem.
We are still waiting for the "killer solution", but there are so many moving parts in the JavaScript world that assembling the best elements to create a solution that covers all use-cases looks like an impossible mission!