Meteor Toys free alternative package

rova · October 25, 2015, 4:54am

Hello all!

I remember having found a free alternative to the Meteor Toys package (I think it was on crater.io).
I seem to have a total brain meltdown and cannot find it anymore… I checked the forums, crater, github, pocket, bookmarks,… but nothing.

Anyone who knows which package I’m talking about?

Thanks a bunch.

mordrax · October 25, 2015, 6:08am

mongol is the free (lite) version of Meteor Toys.

rova · October 25, 2015, 6:27am

Thanks, but the package I am talking about was not affiliated with Meteor Toys.

shcherbin · October 25, 2015, 6:34am

Can’t find it too. I think it was deleted.

shad · October 25, 2015, 6:42am

Are you guys talking about Constellation ?

shcherbin · October 25, 2015, 6:47am

Oh, great, this is it! Maybe add a screenshot to readme, I even opened it, but didn’t recognise it.

shad · October 25, 2015, 6:54am

I’m not the one behind it, but @babrahams is on this forum

ralpheiligan · October 25, 2015, 7:57am

i like
super like

rova · October 25, 2015, 8:08am

That’s the one indeed! Wow, this time I’ll bookmark it better

Thanks a bunch @shad!

mbrookes · October 25, 2015, 11:28am

Wow, this looks super awesome!

I had to remove mongol after it barfed when I upgraded to 1.2 (took forever to figure out it was the culprit).

Glad to have an alternative!

jacobin · October 25, 2015, 3:04pm

Very awesome indeed.

Is there perhaps a master list of Meteor development tools? That’s something that for sure deserves a section in the new MDG guide.

mbrookes · October 25, 2015, 3:45pm

It seems there is: https://github.com/Urigo/awesome-meteor (agree it would be good to have in the new guide).

sashko · October 25, 2015, 8:29pm

File an issue on the guide repo?

jacobin · October 25, 2015, 9:13pm

It appears there already was a relevant issue filed.

babrahams · October 26, 2015, 6:39am

It’s all open source – if someone makes a PR that updates the README with a screenshot, I’ll publish it immediately.

shcherbin · October 26, 2015, 7:22am

I’ve added screenshots to both packages so that people can see, what they can miss.

Thank you for the packages!

babrahams · October 26, 2015, 7:23am

Published on atmosphere!

KristerV · October 26, 2015, 3:17pm

oh wow… thank you for Constellation. I find meteor toys just too expensive. I know developers get paid a lot, but working in a no-income startup means $100 is a lot.

babrahams · October 28, 2015, 6:44am

More than the expense, it’s just that there wasn’t a straightforward pathway to contribute and innovate on the Mongol platform (at the time I forked and refactored it into Constellation).

There have been some steps to make this easier with the ToyKit™ initiative, but I still personally prefer a platform that innovators can leverage without needing to get a PR merged or a package published on their behalf.

That said, I remain in awe of the Mongol -> Meteor Toys project and the vision of its developer.