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Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0

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Re: Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0

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Post by mden »

jeff_marshall wrote: post #70
DigitalSea wrote: post #10

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…

could you explain what isomorphic means in this context? what set is mapped to another set? what meaning for the set is maintained?

Isomorphic means "same shape". In this case the code running on the client and on the server is the same. Not that terrible of a choice for a word.

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Post by asenna »

I recently started a moderately large project in Meteor and I must say, although I was a little apprehensive at the start, I am truly amazed at how far Meteor has come.

Built-in reactivity, latency-compensation and the lot makes development really fun. It feels like a mature platform, the community is growing and is extremely helpful. I would recommend anyone who is still wondering, to just try to build an app or two with it and you will know what I am talking about.

PS. If you are in the Bay Area, they have Dev Shops at their HQ in SF every 4th Thursday: http://www.meetup.com/Meteor-SFBay/events/221409952/

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Post by curiously »

primigenus wrote: post #71
curiously wrote: post #60

my gripes with meteor are: 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 wi…

DDP is very simple. Think of it like REST for websockets. Here is the project page: https://www.meteor.com/ddp and here is the spec: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/ddp/DDP... . If you have any questions, post them on forums.meteor.com and we'll try to help you out. It's not "tightly coupled" to MongoDB; Mongo is simply the only database that livequery ( https://www.meteor.com/livequery ) has imp…

any dates on when you might see that happening? postgresql support would be a massive game breaker move.

Re: Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0

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Post by curiously »

here's my question for those building their 'app' 'startup' with meteor.js

what does it accomplish for you that normal server rendered framework doesn't do for you?

when you build a meteor.js app you need phantomjs to get it indexed...it won't work on older browsers....the list goes on

I just have trouble justifying why I would need to write my next app using meteor.js

Re: Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0

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Post by primigenus »

asenna wrote: post #83

I recently started a moderately large project in Meteor and I must say, although I was a little apprehensive at the start, I am truly amazed at how far Meteor has come. Built-in reactivity, latency-compensation and the lot makes development really fun. It feels like a mature platform, the community is growing and is extremely helpful. I would recommend anyone who is still wondering, to just try to build an app or two…

If you're in the Bay Area but not in SF, we also have the South Bay meetup (that I run): http://www.meetup.com/Meteor-South-Bay/

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Post by [deleted] »

skrebbel wrote: post #80
jeff_marshall wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

could you explain what isomorphic means in this context? what set is mapped to another set? what meaning for the set is maintained?

Isomorphic is the word some Airbnb people picked to mean "web app that can render html on the server and the client". Everybody hated the word, but nobody came up with something better so it stuck :)

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Re: Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0

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Post by asenna »

andrewfong wrote: post #29
DigitalSea wrote: post #10

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.

Discover Meteor is great but it left me wanting for some more, in-depth resources. I found the Meteor in Action book to be of great help. They are about to release the complete version but the Early Access version is pretty much done: http://www.manning.com/hochhaus/

Re: Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0

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Post by maxharris »

curiously wrote: post #84
primigenus wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DDP is very simple. Think of it like REST for websockets. Here is the project page: https://www.meteor.com/ddp and here is the spec: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/ddp/DDP... . If you have any questions, post them on forums.meteor.com and we'll try to help you out. It's not "tightly coupled" to MongoDB; Mongo is simply the only database that livequery ( https://www.meteor.com/livequery ) has imp…

any dates on when you might see that happening? postgresql support would be a massive game breaker move.

I am really excited about Ben Green's work on mysql and postgresql support in Meteor!

(Check out my other posts on this page for links to Ben's talks about this work.)

https://github.com/numtel/meteor-mysql https://github.com/nothingisdead/pg-live-query

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