🚦 TRANSMISSION #1: a weekly show w/Sashko broadcasting the latest from Meteor Forums

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Topics I would like to see discussed aside from what was already posted:

Introducing Mantra - An Application Architecture for Meteor

As I promised on Friday, Here’s mantra. Checkout the blog post. Or you can directly jump into: Specification: https://kadirahq.github.io/mantra/ Sample App: https://github.com/mantrajs/mantra-sample-blog-app Have a look at it and let’s discuss.

Why React/Redux is an Inferior Paradigm

I found an interesting article by Andé Staltz and want to share. I found these quotes interesting, and counter to some of the anti-Blaze arguments we’ve read on this forum: React’s community claims that React uses functional techniques heavily, however that is not true in practice. OOP, classes, callbacks, and this are commonplace, as well as imperative method calls such as dispatch, setState, etc. This also means there is no clear interface/gate for I/O and effects. I keep hearing how Rea…

Say No to Universal Apps

This is something I always wanted to talk about. In nutshell, isomorphic apps are great in concept. But they’ll lead us to a very scary point if we followed that path. I’m not saying optimizing our apps for Mobile is bad, but building mobiles apps based on our usual app is a bad idea. I’m not sure everyone will agree on this. But, I assume you’ll find this article useful. Give it a Read: Say No to Isomorphic Apps.