For those who don’t know, I’m the lead developer advocate at Meteor Software (the company behind Meteor and Galaxy).
I’m currently planning and organizing ideas for articles and videos that our team and I will create this year.
What kind of content would you like to see being produced on our side? Please tell me all your ideas! It can be anything, from how Meteor works internally to tutorials on building AI products with it.
Last but not least, who’s interested in writing articles for us?
We’re working internally to release a program for those who want to write Meteor/Galaxy related content and be paid for it. I’ll have more news about this soon.
Ir will be interesting to have some content explining the inner workings of meteor to make it easier for people to make PRs. Maybe even working on some open issues.
It will also be interesting talking about data modeling, querying, indexing, transactions, joins and DB related stuff as this is one of the hard things about scaling. Also data fetching, I think this is a simpler thing, but might be interesting for some.
How to use atlas search (or other search) with meteor.
Also it wil be nice to use the vide coding trend, to show how people can build secure apps easily with meteor while vibe coding.
For newcomers also might be interesting how to use Meteor with tailwind and shadcn. How easy is to deploy meteor to galaxy or other services. How easy is to use meteor with different frontend frameworks. How can they start a project with an already default template with accounts, users management, payments and somehting else that attracts new devs.
I personally will like articles or content about the internals of meteor, how it works and how can we help to make it better.
The thing I’d like the most is beginner tutorials / guides tailored for modern Meteor. Ideally, with lots of hand-holding for users who may be new to Node.js development in general.
Meteor “suffers” from being around for too long, and as such, there are a lot of tutorials for old versions that don’t apply 100% to new versions. Having links to point new users to helps.
Some suggestions:
• How to store, read, and publish encrypted data (specific columns or entire documents) in MongoDB
• Building a DataGrid with pagination, sorting, and searching capabilities
• Using Axios for external API integration in Meteor
• Embedding a Meteor app inside a WebView
• Creating a WebView application using Electron.js, and enabling communication between desktop and web layers via IPC (Bridge)
• Implementing push notifications and local notifications with OneSignal
• Uploading files to AWS S3 using the meteor-files package, including opening a cropping window before uploading images
• Managing and editing media files stored on AWS S3
• Tutorials and videos related to MontiAPM usage and best practices
• Open-source app clones built with Flowbite, ChakraUI, Tailwind UI, or shadcn/ui, such as simple todo apps or chat apps
• Redis-powered applications using pub/sub architecture (e.g., messaging apps, Kahoot-like quiz games, card games, backgammon)
I just started doing some live streams while I code Meteor. Today, I was learning about the amazing @zodern work on the minifier-js.
I was explaining the code while I read about minification, fallback, caching, and source maps… a really amazing piece of work.
It was totally unplanned and a personal initiative, just to help me to focus; Still learning how to do it.
Maybe we can extract some cuts from there.
I will do more next days, follow me on twitter to know when I will be in live again
Let me know if you have any feedbacks or a specific issue you want to see in live
Meteor has truly unique and fascinating features. It’s a shame they aren’t more widely known. I would love to see YouTube videos as that’s how I mainly absorb information. However I don’t want content for the sake of content or to reach a metric. I want hyper edited, highly optimized videos. If it’s entertaining it would be like codebullet. Otherwise it could just be a good tutorial. Anyways fat chance, if there were someone interested in creating these types of meteor videos they already would be doing that. Sigh…but it’s what I would watch!
Sorry I’m late to the party but 100% agree on content to help a developer in 2025 get started with Meteor in a real world situation. Can I go to the docs, or an official blog, and get up to speed to the point where I can get liftoff to build my own project.
Perhaps a starting point would be the Examples project in Github. This is linked from the Meteor Docs, but every example uses Meteor 2. A handful of PRs exist, but they’re all a year or more old. Updating these examples could be a community project, but that’s the sort of barrier a developer faces when trying to get started.
Expo and Twilio both have great content resources. For example, I can go to Twilio’s Developers blog right now and start building real-life tutorials.
