Meteor 3.0-rc.1 is out!

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We have a new release: meteor 3.0-rc.1

Hello everyone! Here we have one more update for Meteor 3! :tada: :rocket:

Breaking change:

  • All modules now use strict mode (discussion about it)
    • We had one or two reports with this the error ReferenceError: App is not defined while creating a code like:
      import SimpleSchema from "simpl-schema";

App = {}
      This happens because now, with TLA enabled, Reify enables strict mode to all modules. This is something the spec requires.

Fixes:

  • Cordova development in Meteor 3.x has been fixed. [PR]
  • Fixed error next.runImage.call is not a function [PR]
  • Svelte projects are confirmed to work in Meteor 3.x. Remember to use zodern:melte and migrate any third-party packages.
  • Vue projects are confirmed to work in Meteor 3.x. Make sure to use jorgenvatle:vite-bundler and migrate any third-party packages.
     meteor npm i -D vite@4
 meteor npm i meteor-vite
 meteor add jorgenvatle:vite-bundler@2.0.0-beta.12 --allow-incompatible-update
  • Added changes from the 2.16 release. Check them out for details

How to test it?

Existing projects:

meteor update --release 3.0-rc.1

Starting a project:

meteor create app-name --release 3.0-rc.1

Your help testing this version by creating a new app or migrating your current one will be extremely helpful!

Please give us your feedback, and if you find any issues, you can create a post here or open an issue on GitHub.

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The glitch documented here is still present in rc.1.

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Yes, we are going to look into this in this next RC!

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Congratulations! Is Blaze and FlowRouter compatible and ready to go?

Coming back to Meteor after last using it 5 years ago.

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That’s great, Christopher. Can you tell us one or two of the reasons you are returning to Meteor?

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My day job is google integrations and tactical scripts with Appscript and Javascript.

As a result my time is not focused on full stack. Meteor and Blaze are the fastest way to spin up a solution that requires a reactive front end and a data backend, without me having to keep up-to-date with 15 frameworks I might need if I was full stack developing without it.

I was reluctant to use it whilst it was using a non supported Node version for liability reasons.

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Please make allow deny handle async functions. It’s a core meteor feature

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Did you mean something like this:

  collection.deny({
    insert() {
      return true;
    },
    update() {
      return true;
    },
    remove() {
      return true;
    },
    insertAsync() {
      return true;
    },
    updateAsync() {
      return true;
    },
    removeAsync() {
      return true;
    },
  });

It is already possible.

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Now add async in front of insertAsync() and return await Meteor.userAsync() and it’ll not work

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I am converting my app to 3.0. Since 3.0 was in a rc phase, I thought it was close enough that I could finish the migration. However I’m finding a few community packages are still not 3.0 compatible (Though they do have in-progress PR’s), which is going to block a 3.0 migration. Do you know where on the roadmap it would be to make sure community packages are 3.0 compatible? If not by the time 3.0 releases?

I did trim the fat in my app and removed/replaced several unmaintained packages, but with community packages I’m not sure I should do that.

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Which packages are holding you back?

Here’s a Google Sheet where the community is keeping track of 3.0 compatibility. (Thanks again to @harry97 for putting it together)

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Glad to find someone other than me using this sheet. This whole 3.0 transition show me the true plight of open source.

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Thanks, the 2 I’m stuck on are
matb33:collection-hooks and mizzao:user-status

But I’m sure this afflicts other packages too.

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I’m trying to use a .babelrc with my upgraded 3.0-rc based project and it seems to be being ignored. I have:

{
  "plugins": [
    "@babel/plugin-transform-private-methods", { "loose" : true } 
  ]
}

And am still getting the error “Class private methods are not enabled. Please add @babel/plugin-transform-private-methods to your configuration.”

Am I doing something wrong (more likely, I’m sure!) or could .babelrc support be broken?

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I’ve been upgrading my app from 2.7.3 all the way to 2.16 with success at each version. Very happy!

Now, I’m trying to test out:

meteor update --release 3.0-rc.1

but I hit this error every time - for a couple of days now:

Unable to update package catalog (are you offline?)
                                              
If you are using Meteor behind a proxy, set HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environment variables or see this page for more details:
https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Using-Meteor-behind-a-proxy
                                              
=> Errors while initializing project:         
                                              
While selecting package versions:
error: Conflict: Constraint blaze@2.0.3 is not satisfied by blaze 3.0.0-alpha300.17.
Constraints on package "blaze":
* blaze@3.0.0-alpha300.17 <- launch-screen 2.0.1-rc300.1 <- mobile-experience 1.1.2-rc300.1
* blaze@3.0.0-alpha300.17 <- blaze-html-templates 3.0.0-alpha300.17
* blaze@3.0.0-alpha300.17 <- spacebars 2.0.0-alpha300.17 <- templating-runtime 2.0.0-alpha300.17 <- templating 1.4.4-alpha300.17 <- blaze-html-templates 3.0.0-alpha300.17
* blaze@3.0.0-alpha300.17 <- templating-runtime 2.0.0-alpha300.17 <- templating 1.4.4-alpha300.17 <- blaze-html-templates 3.0.0-alpha300.17
* blaze@2.0.3 <- kadira:blaze-layout 2.0.1
* blaze@3.0.0-alpha300.17 <- accounts-base 3.0.0-rc300.1

Do I have to update Blaze separately perhaps?

I have an npm package that requires node >= 18, but Meteor 2.16 is still on node 14.21.4

I am using GitHub - mikeborozdin/http-streaming-request exactly as described in it’s readme (to talk to OpenAi, but for me, Ollama installed locally) and it is exactly what I need.

Or will the upgrade to Meteor 3.0-rc.1 be better tried if I try to upgrade from an earlier version, rather than where I am currently with 2.16?

I suppose I could wrangle my own version of the streaming-request npm package, but … :slight_smile:
Any ideas, anyone?

Thanks!

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Hi,

The problem is with the package kadira:blaze-layout. It requires blaze@2.0.3 but meteor needs blaze@3.x.x

You should look at kadira:blaze-layout to see if there is a new version or put it in your local packages folder and modify it

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Blaze Layout is just a peer dependency of kadira:flow-router. Maybe you go switch to ostrio:flow-router-extra to drop kadira:blaze-layout. The ostrio router also enables yielding render targets.

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@jkuester @harry73
Thanks gents.

I already had the ostrio:flow-router-extra package installed.
I removed the kadira:blaze-layout package.
Then, I had to change BlazeLayout.render(… to this.render(… in the action() function of FlowRouter routes, but that now gives me a this.render is not a function error message.

I wrote a whole screed of code outlining my problems, but I’ll stop here and create another thread.

Thanks again

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