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So my suggestion to anyone considering Meteor in production is to deploy on Modulus.
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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.
Why aren't these great books turned into the official documentation if the current official docs are lacking in so much quality?
I used Meteor a number of times a few years ago and was totally blown away by it. Utterly fantastic. 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.
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.
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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…
Meteor has always seemed interesting but the fact that it is hosted makes it a non starter. There's too many scaling questions that a marketing site will never put me at ease, I'll need to see some solid case studies and ideally a company sponsor of some sort dogfooding it.
Maybe for an MVP? And even then, I have a hard time justifying it over mocking my data and using something like angular to speed up front end. Maybe I'd use it in very narrow use cases.
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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…
I have a hard time understanding how meteor is comparable to angular or ember given that it appears to be full stack in every way, whereas angular or ember I can add to my existing stack. Meteor has always seemed interesting but the fact that it is hosted makes it a non starter. There's too many scaling questions that a marketing site will never put me at ease, I'll need to see some solid case studies and ideally a c…
What do you mean?
I used Meteor a number of times a few years ago and was totally blown away by it. Utterly fantastic. 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.
What are you getting hung up on the most?
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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…
There are some guys that created a Meteor code generator: http://www.meteorkitchen.com and yes there's the NPM iron-cli.
not sure how ddp works or how to scale a meteor app. does not work with postgresql or any other db.
The biggest issue for me is the tight coupling to MongoDB.
Background: we used Meteor back in mid 2013. we ended up wasting a lot of time and resources because we had to learn everything. when we did, it did not perform so well, over 1MB going back and forth for what could've been achieved with a simple LAMP or ROR app. I think they've dropped Meteor completely.
Anyways, the windows support is nice. Might give it another go now. Not sure what the deal is with MongoDB 3.0. I've been using postgresql entirely now.