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Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More

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Re: Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More

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I've been using Meteor for months. It's such a pleasure to work with. It's what Rails should've been if it was written today.

They just keep on delivering on out-of-the-box functionality, compatibility with 3rd party libs, and more importantly - on a very solid architecture for real-time transport by guys who really know what they're doing.

Kudos everyone.

Re: Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More

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I've been using Meteor for months. It's such a pleasure to work with. It's what Rails should've been if it was written today. They just keep on delivering on out-of-the-box functionality, compatibility with 3rd party libs, and more importantly - on a very solid architecture for real-time transport by guys who really know what they're doing. Kudos everyone.

Exact same experience. Development is easy and frustration-free. The team listens to the community AND delivers.

The platform is not just for playing around anymore, it has matured really well. See the case studies[1] - I, for example, love Hansoft X[2].

I think I would feel frustrated to have to go back to any other framework. Meteor is what web-development should be like. I'm not sure if Meteor is going to be THE platform everyone is going to use, but it definitely is completely changing the game and I suspect web-developers will be adopting the Meteor ethos.

[1] https://www.meteor.com/case-studies/build-apps-with-meteor [2] https://hansoftx.com/

Re: Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More

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I don't keep up with meteor, but I have a question for those who do keep up to date on changes.

Can meteor apps be isomorphic -- in the sense that they render plain HTML on the server during first load, and then do the javascript loading thereafter?

I work on several client websites, and passable SEO is a requirement.

I know there's some hackery you can do to get single page apps to be indexed, but I prefer when it "just works" out of the box.

I have some react apps that use this model, and they index perfectly.

Re: Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More

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post #3

I've been using Meteor for months. It's such a pleasure to work with. It's what Rails should've been if it was written today. They just keep on delivering on out-of-the-box functionality, compatibility with 3rd party libs, and more importantly - on a very solid architecture for real-time transport by guys who really know what they're doing. Kudos everyone.

Exact same experience. Development is easy and frustration-free. The team listens to the community AND delivers. The platform is not just for playing around anymore, it has matured really well. See the case studies[1] - I, for example, love Hansoft X[2]. I think I would feel frustrated to have to go back to any other framework. Meteor is what web-development should be like. I'm not sure if Meteor is going to be THE p…

Same experience here as well.

I don't think either that Meteor is going to become de facto platform for all web development, but it's definitely going to be one of the main ones along with Angular, React and Rails.

Re: Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More

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I don't keep up with meteor, but I have a question for those who do keep up to date on changes. Can meteor apps be isomorphic -- in the sense that they render plain HTML on the server during first load, and then do the javascript loading thereafter? I work on several client websites, and passable SEO is a requirement. I know there's some hackery you can do to get single page apps to be indexed, but I prefer when it "…

There are some options that give you server side rendering, for example https://github.com/kadirahq/meteor-react-layout/

You need to use React though, but that's a win in my book since React makes developing Meteor apps so much easier.

Re: Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More

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I don't keep up with meteor, but I have a question for those who do keep up to date on changes. Can meteor apps be isomorphic -- in the sense that they render plain HTML on the server during first load, and then do the javascript loading thereafter? I work on several client websites, and passable SEO is a requirement. I know there's some hackery you can do to get single page apps to be indexed, but I prefer when it "…

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Re: Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More

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I don't keep up with meteor, but I have a question for those who do keep up to date on changes. Can meteor apps be isomorphic -- in the sense that they render plain HTML on the server during first load, and then do the javascript loading thereafter? I work on several client websites, and passable SEO is a requirement. I know there's some hackery you can do to get single page apps to be indexed, but I prefer when it "…

There is no first-party solution for this yet, since React support came out in this release. Hopefully we can make it automatic in the near future. I think this is a key advantage of the Meteor model - since the parts of the stack are expecting to be used together, they can collaborate to achieve functionality like this isomorphic, re-hydrating, SSR.

There are already some community projects working on this functionality: https://atmospherejs.com/reactrouter/react-router-ssr

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