What if Meteor Was Created in 2025?

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Edit: I forgot, a new buzzword for webdev is sync engines, which you can see on Hackernews (original article).

There are forum threads about this:

X Thread Advocating for Sync Engines (a la Meteor Live Data)

Here’s a link that was featured in the Syntax newsletter today: Most apps should use a sync engine instead of doing RPC. It’s more clear to me now than ever before: This will become the new default for future app development. Gets rid of massive amounts of complexity and empowers frontend developers The OP defines sync engines like this later in the thread: An end-to-end system that syncs data directly into clients (often into a client-side database) instead of the client having to manu…

New Article Advocating for Sync Engines (a la Meteor Live Data)

Linked today on HackerNews: “Sync Engines are the Future” …getting data is a continuous process: data changes over time and becomes stale, requests fail, updates arrive later than you might’ve wanted, or out of order. Errors will happen. Occasional if (!response.ok) will not get you very far. fetch(new Request('/user/update', { method: 'POST' })).then((response) => { if (!response.ok) { // Do what? Pretend it never happened? // Stop the entire application? // Retry? What if user…