This is good tutorial to have. Thanks for doing this.
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i like this quote!!! 
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Wow the tutorials are amazing! I wish I had these when I was just starting, anyway now they will be a great reference. Thank you! Keep it up, please!
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Instead of a video series that will instantly become stale and only be attributed to one personā¦ How would you all feel about starting a book on WikiBooks? We can add it to the cannon of wikibooks about JavaScript with rich linking back to JavaScript fundamentals so we donāt reinvent the wheel. And when Meteor changes again, so can the wikibook.
Instead of a video series that will instantly become stale and only be attributed to one personā¦ How would you all feel about starting a book on WikiBooks?
First, thanks for the idea!
Meteor-Tuts is attributed to the community. Itās just a way to help convert people to Meteor. You can submit pull-requests and edit it. Who contributed who wrote what is publicly visible in GitHub!
Regarding rich-linking back to JavaScript, this can be done in the current app + more, because we have control over html and js and very nice things can be done. We donāt have to rely on Wikibooks for UX.
Regarding video seriesā¦ I still donāt have a plan for it, by collecting feedback, the answer is clear, more people prefer text and find text/html tutorials faster to learn. This does not apply to everyone ofcourse.
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Video tutorials have their usefulness to a certain extent however one big problem is they are getting obsolete sooner or later and by the time it takes them to be updated they become even more obsolete. So I think it is a good decision to do this with text.
Still very new, but here is my feedbackā¦
Well Iāve recently started learning Meteor, and it has been frustrating at times. (But still fun).
Anyhow, Meteor was so easy to get started with. The installation was a breeze. Setting up a new project was easy. And making something ācoolā was as easy as following directions. My problem with the tutorials, was that I didnāt understand most of what was going on. The JavaScript used in the tutorials looked nothing like the JavaScript that I was used to (from Codecademy, Lynda etcā¦)
Therefore, I decided to stop in the middle of a tutorial. Simply because I didnāt understand the workings of the cool stuff that I was making. I actually considered jumping on the Python train, but eventually decided to stick with JavaScript because itās so cool, and fast and awesomeā¦
Anywhoser, I decided to give myself small challenges, like: working with helpers, or posting a string from the server to the frontpage - I thought that was easy, but it was agony, since it took me a while to understand methods, stubs andā¦ asynchronous functions ā where the **** did they come from? 
Asynchronous functions is mentioned in the docs, but
And looking into these things was particularly difficult because most of the examples were more complex than what I was aiming to do. Personally I wanted to wait tackling databases and users, and simply learn to do the really easy stuff like implementing functions to the front page etc.
Then I stumbled across two great tutorials from meteortips.com, which from my point of view were much easier to understand, simply because they were in a language that I could understand, and because the pace was slow. This gave me more confidence in creating my own little app, which is pretty much where I am now.
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Well, the meteor tutorial is using the standard JavaScript syntax of 2016.
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Has further progress been made on this tutorial? The ideas for chapters 3 & 4 sound great!
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React sux, the app youāre working on will never need Facebook level scaling, and putting HTML back into your JS code turns the elegance of Meteor into a WordPress site pile of shit.
Stay as close to core as possible, if you want your apps to survive.
Has further progress been made on this tutorial? The ideas for chapters 3 & 4 sound great!
Yes. Chapter 2 is work-in-progress. There are many things that need explaining.
We will continue to use React for itās elegance and simplicity, do yourself a favor and dive into it.
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Hey @diaconutheodor,
Have you got an ETA for the next chapter? I do have some questions regarding best practices when it comes to enterprise level apps.
Thanks,
Chat
Hello. Iām sorry for the delay. But I managed to finish Chapter 3. I still have some elements to add, but itās 85% done. Thanks and enjoy!
Feedback is very welcome! Letās make it a great resource!
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