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Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js mature to enough to use it for build... by alexandernst on Thursday March 19, 2015 @10:15AM (#9232035)
No, I didn't. I'm aware of the existance of those. But those , as you say, external packages are lacking any type of official support. And that is just no acceptable for any serious/big project.

A project manager will be rofl-ing hearing those words, I'd say.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js mature to enough to use it for build... by towelguy on Thursday March 19, 2015 @12:17PM (#9232946)
Almost all the node.js ecosystem consist of external non-official packages. I don't get your point.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js mature to enough to use it for build... by kowdermeister on Thursday March 19, 2015 @10:46AM (#9232270)
I know these project managers. They ask for a 15 line JS helper "library" enterprise level support and they start to scratch their head "what if the developer abandons it".
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Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js mature to enough to use it for build... by alexandernst on Thursday March 19, 2015 @11:10AM (#9232448)
Only that we're not talking about a 15 lines JS helpers, but about quite big parts that should be in the core and instead they are some 3rd party plugins.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js mature to enough to use it for build... by dandv on Thursday March 19, 2015 @07:32PM (#9235304)
If you're looking for a monolithic solution, Meteor may not be for you. Check out Wakanda and Servoy.

Delegating quasi-core parts of the platform to 3rd party libraries is quite common. For example, the preferred routing package for Angular, ui-router (https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router) was born four years after the release of Angular, and for DOM state preservation, the ui-router-extras (https://github.com/christopherthielen/ui-router-extras) addon is required.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Meteor.js mature to enough to use it for build... by subpixel on Thursday March 19, 2015 @10:33AM (#9232163)
There has been some unofficial recent discussion on certain Slack channels about MDG introducing their own versions of key packages. I hope that happens - I think it would go a long way towards addressing concerns like yours, which I share.
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