I am so tired of the Goldilocks pricing model.
It works. For the authors anyway. For poor developers like me it blows.
Discover Meteor
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Re: Discover Meteor
#62I have read the beta release of the book in its entirety. I do not know the book's authors personally, so I can give an unbiased assessment of the book and answer specific questions about the book. The Crux of the Matter: Coming from Node.js/Backbone.js/Express.js, I was pleasantly shocked and surprisingly inspired by how pleasurable and productive it is to develop with Meteor. I am not sure I feel this way about any…
How does it deal with async stuff if I need it in a serial manner? With node I have async. What does meteor have that's similar?
Re: Discover Meteor
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it is mainly for SEO. I don't think google bots like meteor.
Meteor can be made to prep stuff for search engines and other spiders, but the current solution (they admit it's a stopgap) involves PhantomJS, which gets into serious resource consumption for a static site.
At least we have a solution. Anyway node is not good for serving static files. (specially in HTTPS).
So we should let meteor to do what it is best at :)
Re: Discover Meteor
#64So, I have enough money but I can't pay for this book. I live somewhere in SE Asia and I don't have any means to pay for the book. I'm not 18 yet and don't have a credit card. None of my parents/relatives have a credit card that can be used internationally or for online purchases. The government is very strict about money laundering and getting a credit card is a real pain, which my parents didn't want to endure. Trust me, I really want want to purchase the book but I can't.
I would really appreciate If the authors could send me a copy of the book at this email: ajob367@gmail.com I'll surely pay you once I have a credit card. :)
Re: Discover Meteor
#65This book is awesome. I'm following through the chapter. This book contains the real life experience.
You can't get it from reading the docs. So this is the best way to get started with Meteor. And price is too high but its worthy.
+1 for the book as a meteor webapp.
Re: Discover Meteor
#66How many pages does the book have? Even with the discount: $30 is way too much for a tech book IMO. Maybe $20 would be doable.
The price is a complete non-issue for me. For me, the issue is time: why should I spend time learning this framework, versus all the other frameworks that I see showing up a few times a week on HN? If you convince me that my time is worth it, I'd pay $60 as easily as I'd pay $20.
Agree... but still for many people out-of-pocket money is harder to spend than time
Re: Discover Meteor
#67Why not offer a "free-plan" as well? In early stages what frameworks need the most is adoption.
Re: Discover Meteor
#68I have read the beta release of the book in its entirety. I do not know the book's authors personally, so I can give an unbiased assessment of the book and answer specific questions about the book. The Crux of the Matter: Coming from Node.js/Backbone.js/Express.js, I was pleasantly shocked and surprisingly inspired by how pleasurable and productive it is to develop with Meteor. I am not sure I feel this way about any…
How does it deal with async stuff if I need it in a serial manner? With node I have async. What does meteor have that's similar?
Meteor is built on top of node.
'npm install async' becomes 'mrt add meteor-async' ...
Sometimes you have to do a little configuration work to get off the shelf NPM packages settled nicely with Fibers; but its not a huge deal and almost every day someone else will turn npm-somePackage into meteor-somePackage.
Re: Discover Meteor
#69I'm new to Meteor, and just briefly scanned the homepage, but does it offer pre-built admin, same as Ruby and Django?
Re: Discover Meteor
#70What are pre-requisites for understanding the book? For example, does one need to know Handlebars functionality, or does the book introduce them in such a way that one can pick up the required knowledge as one is reading the book. Also, does one need to be a Javascript guru, or is a basic understanding of Javascript sufficient to get started?