Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing?

Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing? by albertTJames on Saturday November 04, 2017 @01:12PM (#15625939)

I agree with this assessment. But meteor's main problem is being able to interface with providers that are not Galaxy, at least they dont have good documentation on it and you have to rely on blog posts. Plus galaxy is at least twice as expensive as aws for small projects.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing? by sumoboy on Sunday November 05, 2017 @02:05PM (#15630963)

I've chosen meteor for a project recently and like where v1.6 is going. I agree the deployment docs for non-galaxy hosting being challenging and it took a bit to figure using PM2 from blog posts. Just starting to test Galaxy which integrates the kadira APM that I think is essential for scaling meteor, too bad the open source version hasn't been updated for 7 months so DIY meteor hosting. If

The meteor docs in general need more examples and best practices. The udemy course on meteor/react is extremely well done as a starting point.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing? by thsowers on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @01:45PM (#15646234)

In my experience, I've found Galaxy not only to be expensive, but also lacking in support and stability. One way around this is to host your own Meteor applications on a VPS using a program like mup[0]

[0]: https://github.com/zodern/meteor-up

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Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing? by kabes on Sunday November 05, 2017 @05:37AM (#15628902)

Well, the output of meteor build is a normal node application, so in that regard it's just as easy or difficult to dockerize/deploy like any other node app.

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