Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing?

Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing? by ordinaryperson on Saturday November 04, 2017 @10:12AM (#15625079)

So much hate for Meteor here, but I use it at work and it's been great for what we wanted.

I inherited a vendor-built website that was Craft CMS (a Yii framework) sitting atop a Laravel application that was integrated with Google Maps and indexed by Solr -- debugging even a minor issue could take days.

Meteor is fast and full-stack, no more knitting together 13 different frameworks. It's integrated with Apache Cordova, so you can easily port your website to mobile apps. It supports importing of node packages. Is Meteor the answer for everything? Of course not. But for a fast, data-driven app it's still great, IMHO.

The alternatives recommended in this thread so far are:

1. Firebase + React/Angular

2. Elixir/Phoenix + PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY

3. Deepstream.io

4. Kotlin

5. .NET Core

6. Vue and Rails

If those things work for you, great, but I'm not sure they're 10x better than Meteor or that MDG is in some kind of death spiral -- it's still a viable solution for fast NodeJS apps.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing? by throwanem on Saturday November 04, 2017 @11:40AM (#15625505)

> Is Meteor the answer for everything? Of course not.

It sure does claim to be.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing? by stvrbbns on Saturday November 04, 2017 @12:32PM (#15625756)

And poptarts claim(ed) to be part of a "complete breakfast"... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nqhoP_ychc

Promotion/marketing speak is promotion/marketing speak.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing? by throwanem on Sunday November 05, 2017 @08:46AM (#15629334)

At least Pop Tarts throw in "part of a". Meteor wants to be your entire stack, to such an extent that I'm honestly a little surprised they don't ship their own editor.

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