Template/Tools recommendation

edejongh333 · July 28, 2020, 10:22am

Hi, I last used meteor about four years ago for a POC and it was awesome. I am currently evaluating frameworks for a client and a different POC and I am blown away at how far meteor has come.

So I last used a template that came with an admin panel and registration/authorisation and it was great. Given that there are so many options out there I would like to get feedback as to the best templates/options for my current project.

I need user reg with admin panel for user management and roles etc.
I need a form component. I was looking at AutoForm, but I read that it might not be suitable for production which is a concern.

What would you guys recommend for these two requirements?

thank you

harry97 · July 29, 2020, 9:34pm

I haven’t tried to implement a user management dashboard before but I do read good thing about Meteor Candy every now and then on the forums and maybe @msavin can shed some light on it and help you out.
As for forms management uniforms is by far the best option IMO. It’s AutoForm but for React and works with simple-schema and many more data modeling utilities.

BTW, you haven’t listed your preference for the view layer which can be a huge deciding factor in your options. AutoForm is suitable for production afaik and it’s about to get a major version release too.

github.com/Meteor-Community-Packages/meteor-autoform

v7.0.0

Meteor-Community-Packages:devel ← Meteor-Community-Packages:v7-dev

opened 03:26PM - 18 Jun 20 UTC

jankapunkt

+13650 -4377

This PR finalizes the rewrite from #1693 on this repo's `v7-dev` branch. This in…cludes proper update of the mentioned issues from #1693, a solid testing and a great and updated documentation. ## What's the goal with v7? This version improves performance a lot, while at the same time reducing bundle size. No underscore anymore and the (outdated BS3) templates are now decoupled from the package, so you are highly flexible in choosing a theme template for your forms. Also the list of extensions is curated to highlight deprecated/abandoned packages. ## Why not finalize in #1693 ? The #1693 was done by @pouya-eghbali (great job!) and come from his fork. In order to allow multiple contributions on v7 without the need of managing a second repo, we just merged it into `v7-dev` and continue to work on this until we have a final version. ## TODO List from #1693 review - [x] replace all `var` with ES6 `let` or `const` and test of the scoping does not break anything - [x] rename unclear variables, like `c` to have meaningful names - [x] replace `indexOf` and -1 comparison on Arrays with `includes` - [x] `isObject` -> `export const isObject = obj => Object.prototype.toString.call(obj) === '[object Object]'` - [x] check for double/multiple declared functions and merge them into a single export - [x] Testing: update testing suite to `meteortesting:mocha` v2 - [x] Testing: introduce GitHub actions to make CI maintenance easier - [x] allow dynamic imports via process.env flag without break actual functionality - [x] the API docs need to be rebuild, since there are updated / changed jsDoc comments in the code Additional bugs to fix, introduced with this PR: - [x] #1696 ## Post-release things to do - Discussion: make `moment` a weak dependency, replace it with luxon / day.s or even with native Date? - The documentation needs to be updated (review outdated extensions, remove links to the old demo) - The demo has been shut down, so we need a good usable demo (using npm `meteor-build-client`) to publish in GitHub pages ## How can I help? We need reviewers and testers as much as possible to make this a stable version. Breaking changes and breaking compatibility with extensions need to be documented, as well as newly added functions. Tests should be added where possible.

cc @jkuester

edejongh333 · July 29, 2020, 10:03pm

Thanks @harry97, I appreciate your feedback. I was considering Blaze, simply because I had issues with React Meteor out of the Box. Also in the past I used Blaze and it was super simple to grok.

So I used meteor-kitchen to generate the user re/auth framework with admin dashboard. Works like a charm. So now I just want to find a nice form solution. I’ll check out uniforms too. If I need to get React Meteor working I will. It was just a rendering issue. Looks like a package import/npm issue. Just prototyping for now though and I like Blaze, so ideally I’d like to stay with that.

I do a huge amount of backend work in the java and microservices spaces, but that a 10 pound hammer and for front end it’s really hard to justify the overhead and complexity when there are awesome alternatives like meteor available.

Thanks again

jkuester · July 30, 2020, 10:26am

Yes @pouyae and me are on a major release for AutoForm. I just completed some bigger personal challenge (moving to another town) and am now back to complete the PR.