Meteor performance optimizations summary as of 2021?

[vlasky]

@waldgeist this is the thread that has the information you are after:

Meteor Scaling/Performance Best Practices

Hi, As most of you know, Meteor scaling has been a constant source of FUD inside and outside the community. And many of you here managed to build and scale Meteor applications in production. In the same spirit as the " What do you expect from your Meteor PWA", I think it is worth documenting the best practices and insights this community has around scaling. Thus, if you’ve managed to scale a Meteor app in production, I would really appreciate if you could take a minute to answer these: Any …

Also, you do not need Meteor-specific packages to take advantage of node’s inbuilt clustering support. Refer to this thread:

Meteor cluster/load balancing today

@antoninadert, you should not make your success dependent on the whims of a departed ‘guru’. It promotes learned helplessness and stifles your own initiative and creativity which is unhealthy :-). In your situation, I would use Nginx load balancing with Meteor. Basically, you get Nginx to distribute requests across multiple Meteor (Node) processes. And how do you create the multiple Meteor processes? There are a few ways. The approach I find most efficient involves using Node’s inbuilt clust…

I have noticed that the presence of old unmaintained Meteor-specific packages - often nothing more than glorified wrappers around node or NPM packages - causes some prospective users to draw the wrong conclusions about the Meteor ecosystem’s state of health.

A major cause of this issue is that Meteor originally didn’t have official NPM support - it was added in Meteor 1.3 which was released in 2016. That’s when many of these ‘wrapper’ packages were abandoned.

The difficulty is that many of these old packages rank highly in search engine results. We should work together to remedy this problem.

For instance, we could make contact with the original authors of the abandoned packages on GitHub/atmosphere and get them to link to contemporary packages, Meteor forum posts or guides.

What do you think?