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Re: Meteor hits 1.0

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Post by dasmithii »

lclarkmichalek wrote: post #56
sferoze wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meteor just hit 1.0 and is not the type of framework you can just start including in your stack. You really have to build a meteor app from the ground up, so it is hard for established tech companies to get into Meteor when they already have spent years coding on another stack. As new startups who use Meteor grow you will see those large-scale projects come about.

So, to put it glibly, the only people who will use Meteor for large-scale projects are those who have no choice?

No, not at all. It's the other way around, really. Those who don't use Meteor for their projects may not be able to without trashing existing codebases.

Re: Meteor hits 1.0

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Post by xs »

Hi meteor.com team. I've scanned the home page and even looked at some other links on the site. I still don't know what this does. Is it a javascript library? Or template maker? A project packager? I have a lot to do and very little time. Can you make a quick video that describes why I should use Meteor and what it does for me? Thanks!

Re: Meteor hits 1.0

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Post by TylerE »

xs wrote: post #62

Hi meteor.com team. I've scanned the home page and even looked at some other links on the site. I still don't know what this does. Is it a javascript library? Or template maker? A project packager? I have a lot to do and very little time. Can you make a quick video that describes why I should use Meteor and what it does for me? Thanks!

Basically, yes to all.

In terms of scope it's roughly as encompassing as something like Rails - it's full stack.

Re: Meteor hits 1.0

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Post by TylerE »

rdtsc wrote: post #50
TylerE wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's super-webscale MongoDB, of course!

Sorry, that's a nope for me then

That was my ultimate conclusion as well.

That said: There's nothing intrinsic in meteor that ties it to Mongo. No reason why, say, a Postgres or Memcache or whatever backend couldn't exist.

B: It is possible, perhaps even common, to write apps without server side storage at all - imagine API frontends or data aggregators.

Re: Meteor hits 1.0

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Post by theckel »

state wrote: post #33

I'm still a bit unclear on what the target market for Meteor is. Is this just for small to medium sized projects, or is it intended to be used for large-scale projects as well? Since it seems like everyone wants to think of themselves as doing something huge, I'm sure the answer can't be 'no' to the second question — but I don't see any examples of significant projects being built on the platform. Actually, with that…

We've built a huge meteor app that has scaled to 1000s of concurrent users and still growing -- there have been some sticky points along the way, but overall, we're extremely pleased. Meteor is an amazing engineering feat.

Re: Meteor hits 1.0

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Post by perlmonkey »

This is about books as learning resources.

For everyone looking to learn Meteor the first 8 chapters of Discover Meteor are available for free for the next week. It is probably the starting book for everyone :) https://book.discovermeteor.com/starter

Also the Manning book Meteor in Action is 50% off the next week with the code jiafinal50 The book is in heavy development with updates every couple of weeks. However it is still not finished and lacks some advanced chapters still. http://manning.com/hochhaus/?a_aid=yauh&a_bid=aeff5509

Apress also has a book called Beginning Meteor but it has almost no relevant content as of yet and no updates in the last months. http://www.apress.com/9781430268369

All Packt titles are hopelessly outdated for version 1.0, so you better stay away from them.

Re: Meteor hits 1.0

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Post by xs »

TylerE wrote: post #63
xs wrote: post #62

Hi meteor.com team. I've scanned the home page and even looked at some other links on the site. I still don't know what this does. Is it a javascript library? Or template maker? A project packager? I have a lot to do and very little time. Can you make a quick video that describes why I should use Meteor and what it does for me? Thanks!

Basically, yes to all. In terms of scope it's roughly as encompassing as something like Rails - it's full stack.

Ah thanks. But if Rails is my coding platform of choice how does this integrate into it?

Re: Meteor hits 1.0

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Post by chm »

dasmithii wrote: post #60

At this point, what percentage of web development can't/shouldn't be done with Meteor? It seems like everything else is obsolete in comparison. The only non-Meteor cases I can think of involve especially large scale.

Because Meteor hides much of what's really going on, it's sometimes hard to understand just how the app is working. At least that was my impression of it when I tried it about 9 months ago.

Choosing a stack on your own means more time is spent making things work, but then you know how it works. That's why I went for a MEAN stack instead of Meteor. But I'm going to try Meteor again soon!

Re: Meteor hits 1.0

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Post by chm »

xs wrote: post #67
TylerE wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically, yes to all. In terms of scope it's roughly as encompassing as something like Rails - it's full stack.

Ah thanks. But if Rails is my coding platform of choice how does this integrate into it?

Meteor uses NodeJS.
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