MeteorJS or Meteor.js?

Recently, we have released the full rebranding for Meteor and Galaxy, and this question kept popping up in my head: what is the right way of writing the framework’s name: Meteor.js, MeteorJS? Or maybe just Meteor.

Yes, I know, this might sound irrelevant for a lot of you guys. But for branding purposes, it’s nice to keep consistency when delivering messages to a large audience.

I have seen it written in different ways, but I ask you, old timers: what do you think is the “right” way?

At the end of the day, I guess the right one is the one we choose, but I’d like to hear some opinions (and maybe stories?) from members who have been here way longer than me.

  • MeteorJS
  • Meteor.JS
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I think MeteorJS is the best choice, just Meteor doesn’t work well for SEO/GEO

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MeteorJS looks nicer than Meteor.js to me too.

I find for a lot of generically named frameworks I have to pair the name with something else in search engines, E.g. “meteor js”, or “reflex framework”, heck even “django app” (otherwise I get Django Unchained). So the bare name works fine as long as all your potential marketshare are doing the same thing.

The one that trips me up is “Meteor galaxy”, I almost never get what I wanted. “Galaxy deployment” sort of works but I sometimes get the wrong thing (Samsung app store, some AWS architecture diagrams that are clearly not Meteor related, etc). Even “galaxy hosting” gets me about 5 or so webhosting services, and Meteors’ is shoved in the middle - these aren’t even ads, they just have the same name. “Galaxy cloud” also hits Samsung results as well.

It’s also the one I search for the most because I never remember the URL (https://galaxycloud.app/)

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I’d go with the “.js” since that’s how the whole ecosystem names things

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Meteor.ts ?! :joy:

or even more apocalyptic: Meteor.coffee

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  • For developers who know Meteor already, there is no difference.
  • For Ai, no problem, they know both MeteorJS and Meteor.js are the same thing.
  • For new developers who haven’t known yet, Meteor.js could be a better choice, because we have Node.js, Next.js, React.js, Vue.js, Ember.js, Backbone.js, Alpine.js, Express.js, Nuxt.js, Koa.js, etc. (actually, that’s all I can list).

I would go for Meteor.js

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There’s only one guy that can answer this @alimgafar
Also please Alim can you shed light on the difference between a framework and platform? Is Meteor a fullstack platform or fullstack framework?

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In the official website at https://www.meteor.com/, it says: Meteor is “The Full-Stack Framework for Real-Time Apps”
I asked Gemini, it says:

Meteor.js is best described as a full-stack framework that includes many platform-like features, making it function as an integrated development ecosystem.

In summary, while you use it to build an application (Framework function), it provides such a complete and integrated environment for building, testing, and even hosting (Platform function) that it is often called a full-stack application platform or an ecosystem.

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Whatever you say after that doesn’t count. Sorry :sweat_smile:

MeteorJS, @alimgafar has more to say about that.

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Following goodle trends, MeteorJS is better

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I think it should just be Meteor. You can juice SEO with “js”, “JavaScript”, etc but the brand should be Meteor. Already owning meteor.com is huge. Lean into that.

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Maybe I’m being a dumby but “.js” sounds like a TLD. Or it suggests Meteor is framework in a single file. :smile:

MeteorJS. Even the Galaxy blog linked above just says “MeteorJS”. (Also, I much preferred the original logo :sob: )

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I do have quite a bit to say. I will spend some time sharing my thoughts on both the name and framework/platform argument.

I’m in a board meeting whose prep has taken much of my time. I’ll get to it later tonight when it is over.

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Heads - MeteorJS
Tails - Meteor.js

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Edited the topic with a poll, let’s vote

Surprised nobody asked ChatGPT yet

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Poll is flawed, you wrote “Meteor.JS”

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I guess it’s been decided. :joy:

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I don’t think that matter to the final results.