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.

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

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/)

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

Meteor.ts ?! :joy:

or even more apocalyptic: Meteor.coffee

  • 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

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?

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.

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

MeteorJS, @alimgafar has more to say about that.