Since I read a couple of “Bye-Bye”-Posts recently, I tought it was time for a “I’m still Here” post. So yes, I am still working on my Meteor project, with Blaze (!) and all that other cool stuff. Never would I have gotten that far without Meteor.
I LOVE Blaze and meteor: After working my ass off for the last year learning “meteor 1.0” (Mongo. Blaze, SimpleSchema, Collection2, Autoform, and all the other nice stuff out there on athmosphere) I feel like on on fire. There is sooo much stuff we can do using those tools. Let’s keep them alive and build upon them.
Yup, still kicking around, and looking forward to years more of Mongo/DDP/minimongo usage. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources works great with SimpleSchema, Collection2, etc. And we have some documents in the works regarding refactoring from Blaze to React Native.
Do you guys remember the good old times, when really cool packages kept popping up out of nowhere on a daily basis on athmosphere? I’d love to see that again soon!
I’m one foot in, one foot out at this point. After poking around on Meteor for a bit under year, I made a decently-functioning app that’s currently running. And I don’t have any intention to migrate it.
However, Meteor being my first real foray into the full stack of web development, for my next project I decided to start with a bit more of a “ground-up” approach. Node.js + Express + Vue.js + Firebase. There’s some overlap in these technologies and Meteor, but I felt the call to expand my horizons and see how a few more of the pieces actually fit together. Once I’m done with my next project, who knows. It’ll be exciting to come back and see how the Meteor ecosystem has grown in that time. I wish the best for the people who are sticking it out here.
P.S. Galaxy is baller, still. If MDG happens to open that platform up to plain Node.js apps, they’ll have me as a long-time customer.
Still here too! After a couple simple “test” projects I’ll kick out to production the most demanding project I have ever worked on in just a couple months now. Thanks mostly to minimongo, DDP and awesome community packages!
I started a project for Caterpillar, which had a deadline of 1 week to complete. I only got it because I left for Meteor. We’re also using Meteor for a great precision agriculture project, and at no time did I miss using Node with anything else.
I’m still here too, and fully dedicated to maintaining and improving the Meteor Mantra Kickstarter to ease the uptake for newcomers who want to go that route.
Next roadmap item :: an entirely new deployment vector.
Thanks for the good vibes everyone! If you have a chance to tell people about your experience or contribute to Meteor in the form of designs or PRs, that would be incredible.