4 ms·

Pretty surprised they are at 0.9 now. I worked with Meteor last year in June but we soon gave up using it on a project. I wonder what has changed since then, if

Pretty surprised they are at 0.9 now. I worked with Meteor last year in June but we soon gave up using it on a project. I wonder what has changed since then, if it's actually scalable and stable to use. I'm also curious as to how the mobile apps will run on older Android phones. For real time I thought about using Firebase which seemed a lot more easier and reliable than Meteor, but now that they are closer to 1.0.0 I am keen to have a look at Meteor.js again.

saym 12y ago
I too have a simple app I built as a school project back when MeteorJS was at 0.6.2.[0] I fell out of love with it then but I'd be keen to see what's changed. This mobile mindset looks pretty sweet. [0] http://booktrad.es http://booktrad.es
- notastartup 12y ago
  We used it to build an enterprise app for the fishing industry. Real-time was the key feature. 4mb downloads on simple table view with real time edits by multiple users. At the time we were reading Discover Metoer book by Sascha Greif and trying to figure things out using Atmosphere packages. Derby.js was another consideration but since Meteor was more popular we chose it. Anyways looking back, we used so many exotic new tech stacks to do really simple applications which cost more and didn't really give other edge. I quit using Javascript on the server side and started to pick up Python. I don't plan on going back to Javasscript from Python but Python really lacks a real-time framework like Meteor and still Python to Javascript compiler has not really picked up momentum from what I can see. I think if Python does not bring itself to the browser soon it could mean trouble for future relevance. The fact that we have MEAN stacks and such pisses me off. You don't need that shit to write your god damn Facebook clone, just use Python or PHP. OR the famous writing a REST api before you write your website is the even crazier one. It's not too late to abstract out a restful backend from your web app until you decide to write blackberry, android, iphone apps.

saym 12y ago

I too have a simple app I built as a school project back when MeteorJS was at 0.6.2.[0] I fell out of love with it then but I'd be keen to see what's changed. This mobile mindset looks pretty sweet. [0] http://booktrad.es http://booktrad.es

notastartup 12y ago
We used it to build an enterprise app for the fishing industry. Real-time was the key feature. 4mb downloads on simple table view with real time edits by multiple users. At the time we were reading Discover Metoer book by Sascha Greif and trying to figure things out using Atmosphere packages. Derby.js was another consideration but since Meteor was more popular we chose it. Anyways looking back, we used so many exotic new tech stacks to do really simple applications which cost more and didn't really give other edge. I quit using Javascript on the server side and started to pick up Python. I don't plan on going back to Javasscript from Python but Python really lacks a real-time framework like Meteor and still Python to Javascript compiler has not really picked up momentum from what I can see. I think if Python does not bring itself to the browser soon it could mean trouble for future relevance. The fact that we have MEAN stacks and such pisses me off. You don't need that shit to write your god damn Facebook clone, just use Python or PHP. OR the famous writing a REST api before you write your website is the even crazier one. It's not too late to abstract out a restful backend from your web app until you decide to write blackberry, android, iphone apps.