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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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Post by vskarine »

TylerE wrote: post #20
sergiotapia wrote: post #13

I'm blown away by Meteor. Using Meteor and React is just buttery smooth. More and more companies are using React now in the startup space, and it's one of the most popular services on StackShare: http://stackshare.io/meteor React integration is a first-class citizen: http://sergiotapia.me/2015/09/18/react-and-meteor-match-made... No weird hacks, lib includes and other nonsense you shouldn't really care about. And you…

I'll jump on when they have first-class support for a DB that isn't Mongo.

there are third party developers working on SQL support, this one for example adds reactive queries for Postgres: https://github.com/numtel/meteor-pg

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

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Post by vskarine »

no1youknowz wrote: post #53
TylerE wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll jump on when they have first-class support for a DB that isn't Mongo.

Give me postgres support and I'll definitely consider switching what I have in the short term. I'm happy to wait until then!

try including this package https://github.com/numtel/meteor-pg

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

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Post by uptownJimmy »

JaakkoP wrote: post #45
sotojuan wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly think that with some good marketing, Meteor can be on top when they get SQL support.

That's a good point. While I love Mongo, a lot of developers won't even consider Meteor since it has only NoSQL support.

I've wondered to myself a few times: perhaps Meteor would be even more popular than it presently is, if it had not been chained to MongoDB from the start. Even a different NoSQL db would probably have been a more popular/respected choice, at this point.

And, though I know this has been said before, it bears repeating: most developers who deal with data on a regular basis are best advised to go ahead and get comfortable with SQL. So far, it is BY FAR the best solution to the great majority of data-storage-and-retrieval use cases. I'm no expert, tis true, but I don't see JSON objects replacing SQL any time soon.

So, yes: as soon as Meteor includes official support for one of the SQL platforms, I'm all over it. It seems very promising, for those of us not locked in a death-rattle of foaming, red-faced JavaScript hatred.

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

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Post by neovive »

I've worked with Meteor on and off for the past few months and it's very fun and fast for development. It's very exciting to see how quickly Meteor is moving ahead. I'm eagerly awaiting the official release of Galaxy as production deployment is a bit involved with different options to piece together for Mongo and Node hosting.

My biggest concerns are the lack of official support for server-side rendering, routing and relational db. Although, many of the common concerns you'll see in the HN comments are on the development roadmap[1].

[1] https://trello.com/b/hjBDflxp/meteor-roadmap

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

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Post by zyxley »

graffitici wrote: post #84

Is 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…

For my part, I can't stand JSX. The 'magic' behavior of using things without quotes/escaping just makes me go "ewww".

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

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Post by mizzao »

morgante wrote: post #51

Can 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.

Has been resolved since over 2 years ago:

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/History.md#v060-...

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

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Post by mizzao »

sgzhaohang wrote: post #40

I'm excited to see they've made big stride over the past several years. I'm really curious about how people compare this with native dev especially right now most startups chose native approach.

React native + Cordova, seems like it would be pretty great for everything except 3D games...

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

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Post by debaserab2 »

kentonv wrote: post #83
debaserab2 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"?

Proprietary is the wrong word, as it is open source. The right word would be "immature", as meteor is an entire tech stack that hasn't been battle hardened by years or decades of other software that currently exists in other tech stacks.

The other piece is the meteor stack is designed to be hosted by meteor. Sure, you can, in theory, run everything yourself - but I haven't seen good case studies of that. What do you do when your app blows up and suddenly the hosting costs of meteor is too much of an overhead?

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