what a waste of talent, i pity any company using windows as a server...
Meteor on Windows
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Re: Meteor on Windows
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Required for this page, yes. But, necessary? Only for interactive visualizations and content updates.
It's gone far beyond that for many sites. It's essentially a minimum requirement now, and there's not much good reason for it not to be enabled.
I would prefer my mobile devices not have to burn the extra battery required to execute JavaScript code just to display a page of purely static content.
Yes, it is reasonable to expect all browsers to have JavaScript enabled, but that doesn't mean it should be carelessly used.
Re: Meteor on Windows
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's gone far beyond that for many sites. It's essentially a minimum requirement now, and there's not much good reason for it not to be enabled.
I would prefer my mobile devices not have to burn the extra battery required to execute JavaScript code just to display a page of purely static content. Yes, it is reasonable to expect all browsers to have JavaScript enabled, but that doesn't mean it should be carelessly used.
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Re: Meteor on Windows
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Required for this page, yes. But, necessary? Only for interactive visualizations and content updates.
It's gone far beyond that for many sites. It's essentially a minimum requirement now, and there's not much good reason for it not to be enabled.
But there IS good reason for disabling things like js. Disabling makes sense for both security and privacy reasons, and yes, costs. The most publicized example of the latter is cheaper airline tickets.
Re: Meteor on Windows
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Vagrant is also an awesome alternative to a VM or full installation of any Linux flavor. I've been playing with it and together with the subset of Linux commands that comes with MSysGit I can even SSH into the Vagrant box from the regular Windows command prompt or Console2.
The new http://win.meteor.com also documents two Vagrant-based solutions for those that feel the same way, and should kick-start someone unfamiliar with Vagrant / Shell / Chef / Linux. I maintain the Chef version posted here... Edit: And it should be highlighted that these Vagrant solutions offer a work around for the Meteor MongoDB to be able to utilize the Vagrant Synced folders, so the editing and viewing is near-…
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