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Then went down the route of working in enterprise java for a few years and now, trying to get into full stack javascript based development, I feel totally swamped.
A few hours a day for a week have already generated real progress with a startup idea, which would have taken me weeks using angular/express/mongo/node separately. As someone with a full time job who is trying to work on side projects in my free time after work, it's really nice to see progress every night and definitely motivates me to keep going.
Keep it up!
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What's great is you can still use React with a Meteor backend. There are tons of integrations and examples out there on how to do so. :)
I haven't used Meteor too much, and I always seem to find myself a bit mystified as to what it really is . Is it the front-end? Seems like no, if you can swap that out with React. Is it the back-end? Can that be swapped? The real-time communication functionality? The tooling? All of the above, with caveats? I'm very curious!
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What's great is you can still use React with a Meteor backend. There are tons of integrations and examples out there on how to do so. :)
I haven't used Meteor too much, and I always seem to find myself a bit mystified as to what it really is . Is it the front-end? Seems like no, if you can swap that out with React. Is it the back-end? Can that be swapped? The real-time communication functionality? The tooling? All of the above, with caveats? I'm very curious!
You can read more about that here: https://www.meteor.com/projects
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The tooling is where Meteor really shines. I must admit I found React to be quite cumbersome to get off the ground, in contrast Meteor is pure bliss. It hasn't all been roses; I've had plenty of obstacles to overcome as I've learnt the framework, its capabilities and its limitations, but the community has been helpful and I can honestly say that working with Meteor is on the whole very slick. https://atmospherejs.com…
From what I have seen the tooling is definitely great. I am not the worlds biggest fan of Ruby on Rails, but one aspect I have always liked is the scaffolding. Being able to generate the skeleton of an application from the command line without needing to glue anything together or read documentation on multiple plugins. Don't get me wrong, I love working with React.js, but it isn't a framework and aspects like dealing…
With everything in a predictable location and following the same patterns, code is more intuitive to reason out.
When will RethinkDB be supported? :-)
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What's great is you can still use React with a Meteor backend. There are tons of integrations and examples out there on how to do so. :)
I haven't used Meteor too much, and I always seem to find myself a bit mystified as to what it really is . Is it the front-end? Seems like no, if you can swap that out with React. Is it the back-end? Can that be swapped? The real-time communication functionality? The tooling? All of the above, with caveats? I'm very curious!
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What's great is you can still use React with a Meteor backend. There are tons of integrations and examples out there on how to do so. :)
I haven't used Meteor too much, and I always seem to find myself a bit mystified as to what it really is . Is it the front-end? Seems like no, if you can swap that out with React. Is it the back-end? Can that be swapped? The real-time communication functionality? The tooling? All of the above, with caveats? I'm very curious!
Meteor is modular enough that you can swap out current pieces if you want to, but you're certainly not expected to do that (and if you're just getting started with Meteor, it's almost discouraged). And there are plenty of benefits to just using Meteor for everything -- e.g. Meteor creates a "minimongo" interface on the client that lets you re-use your MongoDB queries on the client.
One way to grok this is to compare Meteor to Django. Just as you can swap out Django's default homegrown templating system with Jinja, you can swap out Meteor's default homegrown reactive frontend with React. But you certainly don't have to and neither Django's or Meteor's devs expect you to.
There's a more thorough discussion of Meteor's various parts here: http://joshowens.me/what-is-meteor-js/
I think I might give Meteor a shot. For a long time I have been working with AngularJS and Node.js. Recently I have been working exclusively with React.js + Flux and Node.js to build isomorphic web applications. I like the fact Meteor is isomorphic by default and comes with everything you need. I have always somewhat seen it as this outlier, a great looking framework but lacking the same vocality that Facebook and Go…
If you get lost at any point, I highly recommend https://www.discovermeteor.com/ . Definitely much useful than the official documentation if you're looking for any sort of tutorial.