Meteor Dispatches - December 15 2023

storyteller · December 15, 2023, 2:18pm

Like every Friday, here we go with Meteor Dispatches, weekly news:

Show notes to follow.

storyteller · December 15, 2023, 3:27pm

News
- Development updates
  - Meteor-desktop v3.2 released
    - Release v3.2.0 · Meteor-Community-Packages/meteor-desktop · GitHub
    - Updated to Electron 17
  - Meteor 2.14 Released
    - New Meteor.js 2.14, updates to CLI and Tracker changes | by Gabriel Grubba | Dec, 2023 | Meteor Blog
    - https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/12795
    - Recommended release on
  - Meteor 3
    - FAQ section has been added to the documentation Add a few Q&A about meteor 3 by Grubba27 · Pull Request #12910 · meteor/meteor · GitHub
    - ARM support on Linux
      - HOWTO: Using newest Meteor 3.0 alpha at Linux arm64
- Tap:i18n Maintenance Resumed & New Version Released
  - Have you ever thought that there can be a revival of years old packages?
  - This is a great example of an old package being picked up again
  - Will it become 3.0 capable soon?
  - Maybe we can get the maintainer into the show for a talk on their motivation behind this move
  - Tap:i18n Maintenance Resumed & New Version Released
  - tap:i18n - Packosphere
  - Recent version: 1.11.1
- Post your open source projects that need migration to 3.0!
  - Post your open source projects that need migration to 3.0!
- Hono.js
  - A simple WebSocket benchmark in JavaScript: Node.js versus Bun – Daniel Lemire's blog
  - https://hono.dev/
  - Hono is a fast, lightweight web framework that wasn’t originally aimed at Node.js, but with the latest Node.js adapter it is now significantly faster and “makes it one of the first choices for creating web apps on Node.js.”
- Tranformers.js v2.9
  - If you feel like you’ve been missing out on the party
  - While the Python, Scala, Rust, C, and C++ folks
  - have all the fun working with LLMs,
  - You don’t have to cry anymore
  - Santa Claus has come to town bringing joy to all you JavaScript developers. You can now train and run models natively in JavaScript and in the browser. It’s called transformers.js and you can try it out here:
    - Transformers.js
    - GitHub - xenova/transformers.js: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for the web. Run 🤗 Transformers directly in your browser, with no need for a server!
    - Transformers.js ← really nicely documented and arranged
  - Try it out Build stuff with it and with MeteorJS.
  - Better still, contribute a package to make using it easier. You get to play with AI in your favorite dev platform.
- JetBrains joins the AI game
  - JetBrains AI Service and In-IDE AI Assistant
Upcoming
- Blaze Panel (2d or 3d week in January)
- Techno-Optimist Manifesto (Hot topic, after Christmas)
- Meteor Migration (Deep Dive, week after New Year’s)
Discussion: Understanding Meteor - Isomorphism or Reactivity?
Reminders
- Meteor Christmas meetup in Prague
  - 21st December
  - Meteor.js Christmas gathering, Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 5:30 PM | Meetup
  - Year in review