Big Changes at Meteor Software: Our Next Chapter

A New Era, A New Identity

First things first! We’re introducing fresh new brands for both Meteor and Galaxy.

Our new Meteor brand represents our commitment to modern JavaScript. The redesigned Meteor website is ready and includes a cool interactive demo showcasing what Meteor can do.

Meanwhile, Galaxy’s new independent brand shows it’s growing beyond its Meteor-only roots into a robust, multi-stack cloud platform.

Meteor 3: Embracing the Node.js Ecosystem

After countless nights, we released Meteor 3.0 in July 2024 (now we’re at version 3.2). This release wasn’t just another version bump. It shows where we want to go in the future.

These changes help Meteor work better with other Node.js tools. This is important because we can use the best tools in the JavaScript ecosystem instead of maintaining our solutions for everything.

What’s Coming in 2025

Our 2025 roadmap shows where we’re heading.

Bundle Optimization: Our Current Priority

  • Working with modern bundlers: We’re making it easy to use RSPack, ESBuild, and/or Rollup
  • Faster builds: With our new tools added in version 3.2 and 3.3 beta
  • Better development experience: Making changes to your code will show up more quickly

Upcoming Improvements

  • Modernized RPC Methods and Publications: Adding self-documenting code, better validation, and more intuitive interfaces while maintaining backward compatibility
  • MongoDB Change Streams: Using the official way to get real-time updates from MongoDB
  • Better TypeScript support: Making it easier to use TypeScript with Meteor and its packages
  • CapacitorJS for mobile apps: A better, newer way to build mobile apps
  • Faster releases: Making our process quicker so you get updates sooner

Galaxy Expands Its Universe

Galaxy is evolving beyond its role as a Meteor-only hosting platform. The platform now supports Node.js and Python applications, including frameworks such as Express, Nest, Adonis, Flask, and Django.

Our promise is simple but powerful: We’ll provide the most user-friendly cloud platform and the most responsive support team.

Complete Platform with Database Solutions

In 2024, we enhanced Galaxy by adding MongoDB. We’re continuing this evolution in 2025 by expanding our database offerings to include PostgreSQL (coming soon), Redis, and FerretDB.

Galaxy now operates as an independent platform with its own dedicated website and distinct brand identity separate from Meteor.

Try It Today

I encourage you to upgrade to Meteor 3. You’ll feel the benefits of native async/await and modern Node.js features. Meteor 3.3, which is currently in beta, already brings faster builds.

For those working with Node.js, Python, and their popular frameworks, consider exploring Galaxy. Visit our new Galaxy website.

On our blog, you can read the full article.

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Looks great! Exciting to see the many changes to Meteor and Galaxy.

I had a question regarding bundling since I’m not 100% sure what direction that’s headed in (other than performance improvements) - are there any plans or ideas to officially support vite, or would that be left to the community for the meantime?

A lot of tooling, frameworks or libraries seem to assume we should be using vite by default, which isn’t the first time this has happened (Webpack used to enjoy this status after all) but it does mean for me that I will see myself using vite for the considerable future of my Meteor apps’ development.

But I can also imagine there’d be concerns on making vite the core bundler for Meteor, especially if it somehow experienced a major breaking version during the adoption of rolldown or something.

Nice! Looking forward to all the upcoming improvements.

Also seeing jam:easy-schema on the meteor homepage is surreal and very cool. Thanks y’all!

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