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Show HN: travel.meteor.com: clone of mywanderlust in Meteor

18 points by aioprisan 13y ago

The basis of this project is a discussion started earlier today about a wonderful, open source project: http://mywanderlust.co/ The discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653827 My claim was that a project that took weeks or months to implement in RoR and Angular could be completely implemented in Meteor in 1 hour or so. My statements were not meant to attack the original author because he did a great job thinking out the UI, user flows and structure of the project, which I simply copied. Many users got angry at my claims and downvoted me, challenging me to prove my assertion. Meteor is perfect for this type of rapid prototyping and I wanted to show the community what could be completed in 1 hour (56 minutes to be precise) on a Friday evening after work. As promised, I cloned the functionality of the showcased project in Meteor in 1 hour. Finished product: https://travel.meteor.com Source code: https://github.com/andreioprisan/meteor-trave I'd love to get some feedback or answer any questions about the project or Meteor.

rywalker 13y ago
Doesn't seem to be working for me - just get message "we dispatched the elves to get your trip details, hold tight"
- aioprisan 13y ago
  Hmm, are you still seeing this issue? Can you share any console logs?
throwaway344 13y ago
I'm getting the same error message as rywalker. In the console, I'm getting this: The page at https://travel.meteor.com/trip/2f64d588f9e05193ef5fd022a4a004f8 https://travel.meteor.com/trip/2f64d588f9e05193ef5fd022a4a00... displayed insecure content from http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=51.51121389999999,-0.1198244&zoom=11&size=200x200&sensor=false http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=51.5112.... 2f64d588f9e05193ef5fd022a4a004f8:1 insert failed: Access denied
- aioprisan 13y ago
  Indeed, this was a bug. I included http:// http:// to get the map image when in fact it needed //, since when hosted on meteor.com it defaults to https. This is now fixed in the repo.
flylib 13y ago
good work, Meteor is the fastest framework to get things done for sure if your familiar with it
- aioprisan 13y ago
  thanks!
pbprabhuram 13y ago
That is a bizarre statement claiming "I am implemented this in days what was taken by a team of people over Months" Similar to the Pintreest clones copying the original site design and idea Finding an Idea, working out the idea, design and workflow takes time, after which a clone like you can copy it in days....
- aioprisan 13y ago
  Again, I think you're missing the point of this cloning process. My entire point was that while yes, there is considerable thought and consideration going into actually coming up with the user flows, interface etc., the best platform from an ease and speed of development for this type of real-time web application would be something like Meteor. I then proceeded to put my money (or time, in this case) where my mouth is, by building out the entire clone in 1 hour. I never stated nor would think that conceptualizing everything would only take 1 hour, not even close; however, the development speed in doing things in Meteor if you know how to use it and have built a few projects compared to the same thing in RoR and Angular.. well, it speaks for itself. Not months, not weeks, not days. Hour(s).
aioprisan 13y ago
Wow, it looks like over 20k API calls were made any my API key won't work anymore. http://imgur.com/b6ZnAyc http://imgur.com/b6ZnAyc That's a lot of traffic in such a short period of time. Let me get a few more API keys..
flylib 13y ago
just checked how many LOC each project had, only counting the lines in .js, .html, .rb, and .erb files for each project, I got this number 952 LOC - Meteor Travel 4068 LOC - MyWanderLust (Ruby on Rails/Angular) The numbers speak for themselves
- aioprisan 13y ago
  I just trimmed another hundred or so lines. There was some leftover CSS that got copied over from a different project.
- deleted 13y ago
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147 13y ago
Clicky: http://travel.meteor.com http://travel.meteor.com
Tarang 13y ago
I think I saw your comment was kind of hoping you showed the guy who replied that he or she was wrong. With Meteor it kind of becomes that the bottleneck is the lack of clarity in the idea. What I mean is if you know exactly what you want to do (design and all) its pretty much a 1 day job tops.
hubertkuh 13y ago
I get your point :)
scriptstar 13y ago
So, you think meteor is for prototypes not for production?
- aioprisan 13y ago
  Definitely for both, but again it depends on what you're trying to build using Meteor, it may not always be the best tool.

18 points by aioprisan 13y ago

rywalker 13y ago

Doesn't seem to be working for me - just get message "we dispatched the elves to get your trip details, hold tight"

aioprisan 13y ago
Hmm, are you still seeing this issue? Can you share any console logs?

throwaway344 13y ago

I'm getting the same error message as rywalker. In the console, I'm getting this: The page at https://travel.meteor.com/trip/2f64d588f9e05193ef5fd022a4a004f8 https://travel.meteor.com/trip/2f64d588f9e05193ef5fd022a4a00... displayed insecure content from http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=51.51121389999999,-0.1198244&zoom=11&size=200x200&sensor=false http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=51.5112.... 2f64d588f9e05193ef5fd022a4a004f8:1 insert failed: Access denied

aioprisan 13y ago
Indeed, this was a bug. I included http:// http:// to get the map image when in fact it needed //, since when hosted on meteor.com it defaults to https. This is now fixed in the repo.

flylib 13y ago

good work, Meteor is the fastest framework to get things done for sure if your familiar with it

aioprisan 13y ago
thanks!

pbprabhuram 13y ago

That is a bizarre statement claiming "I am implemented this in days what was taken by a team of people over Months" Similar to the Pintreest clones copying the original site design and idea Finding an Idea, working out the idea, design and workflow takes time, after which a clone like you can copy it in days....

aioprisan 13y ago
Again, I think you're missing the point of this cloning process. My entire point was that while yes, there is considerable thought and consideration going into actually coming up with the user flows, interface etc., the best platform from an ease and speed of development for this type of real-time web application would be something like Meteor. I then proceeded to put my money (or time, in this case) where my mouth is, by building out the entire clone in 1 hour. I never stated nor would think that conceptualizing everything would only take 1 hour, not even close; however, the development speed in doing things in Meteor if you know how to use it and have built a few projects compared to the same thing in RoR and Angular.. well, it speaks for itself. Not months, not weeks, not days. Hour(s).

aioprisan 13y ago

Wow, it looks like over 20k API calls were made any my API key won't work anymore. http://imgur.com/b6ZnAyc http://imgur.com/b6ZnAyc That's a lot of traffic in such a short period of time. Let me get a few more API keys..

flylib 13y ago

just checked how many LOC each project had, only counting the lines in .js, .html, .rb, and .erb files for each project, I got this number 952 LOC - Meteor Travel 4068 LOC - MyWanderLust (Ruby on Rails/Angular) The numbers speak for themselves

aioprisan 13y ago
I just trimmed another hundred or so lines. There was some leftover CSS that got copied over from a different project.
deleted 13y ago
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147 13y ago

Clicky: http://travel.meteor.com http://travel.meteor.com

Tarang 13y ago

I think I saw your comment was kind of hoping you showed the guy who replied that he or she was wrong. With Meteor it kind of becomes that the bottleneck is the lack of clarity in the idea. What I mean is if you know exactly what you want to do (design and all) its pretty much a 1 day job tops.

hubertkuh 13y ago

I get your point :)

scriptstar 13y ago

So, you think meteor is for prototypes not for production?

aioprisan 13y ago
Definitely for both, but again it depends on what you're trying to build using Meteor, it may not always be the best tool.