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This looks fantastic. I am considering a purchase. Just curious, why didn't you use meteor to make discovermeteor.com?
by systemtrigger 13y ago
This looks fantastic. I am considering a purchase. Just curious, why didn't you use meteor to make discovermeteor.com?
- arunoda 13y agometeor is not to build static web sites. Its for build Single Page Apps.
- systemtrigger 13y agoA static page is the simplest form of website. It is trivial to build a static page using Meteor. I hoped one of the authors would tell us why they chose not to dogfood on the marketing page for a book on Meteor.
- joshschreuder 13y agoProbably because it's like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. A marketing page like this doesn't require any realtime updates.
- thejosh 13y agoExactly. Using the best tool for the job.
- sgdesign 13y agoExactly. We used Middleman (http://middlemanapp.com http://middlemanapp.com) for the landing page and it worked great. All the data on the landing page comes from a few YAML page, and it even lets us auto-generate special pages for discount codes. I strongly recommend it for any kind of static site.
- arunoda 13y agoI think it is mainly for SEO. I don't think google bots like meteor.
- misuba 13y agoMeteor can be made to prep stuff for search engines and other spiders, but the current solution (they admit it's a stopgap) involves PhantomJS, which gets into serious resource consumption for a static site.
- arunoda 13y agoAt least we have a solution. Anyway node is not good for serving static files. (specially in HTTPS). So we should let meteor to do what it is best at :)
- yaliceme 13y agoIt's worth noting that the book itself is in fact a Meteor app.