Is ES2015 the exact same thing as ES6?
They are using some, but not all, features
supported by Babel to compile ES6/ES2015 syntax to ES5.
Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More
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#82Can you run Node packages on Meteor yet? The decision to be incompatible with the vast number of Node/npm modules is what originally turned me off from Meteor, and I hope it's resolved.
Yes, that was resolved two years ago.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Still waiting for the killer testimonial for meteor, until then I'd be too scared to try it with anything larger than a prototype or brochure site. I don't want to be the first person attacking a completely new class of scaling problems using a proprietary tech stack that I may or may not have the ability to control.
What do you mean by "proprietary"?
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#84Is it fair to say that Meteor is an alternative to Relay and Falcor for managing state with the server? It also seems like it's competing with Redux and all the Flux libraries, right?
The plus side of all this is that React seems like it's becoming the ubiquitous "V in MVC". This is great news, since this means designers should soon feel at east working with JSX, regardless of which platform the company uses. It also should mean that using Meteor for developing mobile apps using React Native should be straightforward..
Not sure if I'll get into using Meteor, but I'm definitely very glad I have a head start on React..! Truly a technology worth mastering.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good question. I think Meteor is certainly the closest of such platform at the moment, but you don't have to go far to find a developer who really hates JavaScript and will never switch over. Such hate may or may not be justified, but you won't easily change their minds. At the same time, there are people - including me - who only develop with JS with no real need to switch over to something else. I wish I had a more…
Has anyone built an Ecommerce platform in Meteor? Meteor is just this months hotness for building a specific type of web product, namely web apps. It's not going to become the defacto standard of anything else.
> Has anyone built an Ecommerce platform in Meteor?
Actually, they have: https://reactioncommerce.com/
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#86I'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.
I had totally different experience. I don't have much experience on meteor just working on some tasks for a meteor project. Hence issues might be related to it as well. But I felt it was very amateurish, there was no proper ordering/routing like in rails. I had to guess debug a lot to identify the source of files. Mongo was a pain to work it. My biggest issue was speed. It took a long time to reload after changes. From this experience I am not interested to work on meteor.
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#87Can you run Node packages on Meteor yet? The decision to be incompatible with the vast number of Node/npm modules is what originally turned me off from Meteor, and I hope it's resolved.
I believe you still have to use a third-party package (https://github.com/meteorhacks/npm), but it's quite easy to use and I've never had any problems with it.
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#88I've posted about the benefits of Meteor on HN before (the tiny apps I built were easy to do), and many times I've been told that the Meteor packages you'll use are out of date and require effort to make work. On this thread however people are saying using Meteor is buttery smooth. Any people care to chime on this issue? Without diving in myself and building a large app, I'm having a hard to determining if the Meteor…
I've yet to come across a situation where something I wanted to do didn't a) have an existing Meteor package, or b) have an npm package that you can include using meteorhacks:npm by arunoda. I'm using Meteor for two enterprise-grade b2b projects (so: reasonable scale) and as far as I'm concerned the package ecosystem is freakin awesome.
Re: Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More
#89Can you run Node packages on Meteor yet? The decision to be incompatible with the vast number of Node/npm modules is what originally turned me off from Meteor, and I hope it's resolved.
I believe you still have to use a third-party package ( https://github.com/meteorhacks/npm ), but it's quite easy to use and I've never had any problems with it.
+1 If there's not a Meteor-specific package you're comfortable with then this is the option. Case in point, I prefer using stripe and twilio via meteorhacks:npm.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good question. I think Meteor is certainly the closest of such platform at the moment, but you don't have to go far to find a developer who really hates JavaScript and will never switch over. Such hate may or may not be justified, but you won't easily change their minds. At the same time, there are people - including me - who only develop with JS with no real need to switch over to something else. I wish I had a more…
Has anyone built an Ecommerce platform in Meteor? Meteor is just this months hotness for building a specific type of web product, namely web apps. It's not going to become the defacto standard of anything else.
I have, not ready for prime time yet as client is dragging their heels but the tech is sound. Using stripe, with big props to http://themeteorchef.com/recipes/building-a-saas-with-meteor...