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Re: Meatier – A Meteor alternative

#41

Is this a parody? It must be right? "Meteor is awesome! But after 3 years, it's starting to show it's age." Edit: Reading more into it, this is just a starter kit and not a replacement for Meteor. You lose everything that made Meteor insanely popular, for what exactly? RethinkDB?

I think by "age", the author means the framework hasn't evolved to incorporate newer ideas that have become popular and proliferated the front-end world.

Re: Meatier – A Meteor alternative

#42
post #29

Is this a parody? It must be right? "Meteor is awesome! But after 3 years, it's starting to show it's age." Edit: Reading more into it, this is just a starter kit and not a replacement for Meteor. You lose everything that made Meteor insanely popular, for what exactly? RethinkDB?

"You lose everything that made Meteor insanely popular, for what exactly? RethinkDB?" - RethinkDB - React - GraphQL - Redux - Webpack - Node 5

There's react integration with Meteor. There's only 1 piece missing at rethinkdb to have rethink integration. Redux is possible. Webpack is possible. Node 5 is also being investigated, and not much is standing in the way.

Look, I get you want to play around with all the new toys for a hobby project. But no professional developer can afford the cost of getting burned by switching to a brand new framework and running into bugs. Meteor gives you the toys a little bit later (I know, web developers find 6 months to be an eternity), but at least you get them when they're proven and stable. Start developing real apps for real companies and you'll see the value of that.

Re: Meatier – A Meteor alternative

#44

I made this. Neat! For those that didnt read more than the title, it's database agnostic. It scales vertically and horizontally. It's not a framework, frameworks are dead. Its just a bunch of packages that fit together like Lego pieces. If you don't need these things (or don't know what they are) don't complicate your life! Get off HN and build something :-)

JavaScript doesn't really scale vertically, not by standard usage. You can't double the CPU cores and RAM and I/O and double your throughput.

Re: Meatier – A Meteor alternative

#46

Wow, there's a ton of jerks here dissing the variety of javascript frameworks here. Look, the web is a fast evolving platform. Similarly, the best way to understand the tradeoffs a framework makes is write your own own! You probably shouldn't use it in production, but it's a good exercise. And writingcode is so easy to do (just code for awhile!) that we're getting a proliferation of it. This is a good thing! I just w…

Why directly mention people you disagree with? Will that accomplish something?

It might. There is no other good way to directly reply to multiple comments without duplicating the reply. Maybe it will encourage them to join this discussion. It also is less vague than leaving them off.
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