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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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I'm curious what startups or big companies are using Meteor in production

My custom packaging startup Packlane ( http://packlane.com ) uses Meteor. Really grateful for this update since the old Mongo version had some major issues.

same reaction as other commenter when I visited your site. super slow to load.

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Responsive SQL, please!

Definitely my biggest current beef with Meteor. It seems technically possible and I understand why they would go with Mongo first, so hopefully its just a matter of time.

Ben (the guy in the video) is working on SQL support!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJzulpXZn6g

Here's a follow-up talk he did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSI68J9wNJ0

Also, there's prototype-grade support for Redis:

https://github.com/meteor/redis-livedata

And that's just the beginning. There are lots more databases that will follow: https://www.meteor.com/full-stack-db-drivers

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

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I've been working with meteor since 0.6.3 and I have had only great experiences with it. I've been going to the meetups in my area which has brought me together with a great community of developers from all sorts of backgrounds - and even connected me with people from across the world via webcast. Nothing but good vibes and support in this community. I saw someone commented with the Discover Meteor book link, and that is the perfect place to start - you need literally zero coding experience to build a production quality app within an afternoon. Also be sure to check out the Telescope project (http://www.telescopeapp.org/) put together by one of the co-authors, Sacha Grief - a designer out of Osaka. He is seriously one of the most dedicated, helpful people out there when it comes to Meteor and I can guarantee if you email him he will respond with help :)

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Meteor is great, I can't create a web app with other stacks faster than with Meteor. My record was saving the day with a demo in less than 1 hour. I'm glad is more mature. The only thing I miss is Postgres as alternative to MongoDB. Mongo is really comfortable but some projects needs Postgres badassness. Should be doable for Meteor's team since Postgres is now super friendly to JSON. I guess the main challenge is in…

This is happening - check it out:

https://github.com/numtel/meteor-mysql

https://github.com/nothingisdead/pg-live-query

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

How's this for marketing? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18083835/how-many-concurr...

Meteor is exclusively not hosted by Meteor (company), you are wrong. You -can- use their free hosting because it's useful to just get an MVP online as quickly as possible.

You can host a Meteor app wherever you can host NodeJS.

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Rapid prototyping is all fine and dandy...but what happens if my idea actually does gain traction? This is the part that makes me uneasy about Meteor. It sounds like I'm either going to have to rewrite everything completely, or wait until Meteor matures, if I need to scale.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18083835/how-many-concurr...

2500 subscriptions per minutes on a shitty $5 digital ocean droplet (in 2013). Don't put the cart before the horse, 99.99% of applications don't reach even 100 concurrent users on a regular basis.

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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?
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