Why doesn't MDG just adopt Vue.js and forget about React vs Blaze?

[emhmark7]

I agree, maybe repeating myself, when we know Vue.js simplicity and potential, who wants React or any other front end tool? Another way to see it: How would the tool we want would be different than Vue.js for better? When one know a bit of Vue, attending a React demo looks really ugly and too complicated.

[vigorwebsolutions]

It was my understanding that things like Transmission were meant to help bridge the gap between what MDG is doing and what the community wants to know about the goals/roadmap. Then you see very few topic requests here. If we want more information (and to not be left in the dark) maybe start with the available channels?

[ramez]

There is also now an effort by @thea to streamline communication with the community. I can sympathize with the bulk of any investment going to MDG to focus on marketing and sales (e.g. after visiting Apollo website, a re-targeting ad keeps appearing when I visit CNN). We are moving in the right direction, thanks as well should go to @sashko.

[sashko]

What’s the future of meteor “classic” ? Has it one ?
What’s coming in the next months ?

Right now the only thing we are doing on Meteor is what it says in the roadmap: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/Roadmap.md

We’re doing our best to invite people to move forward the parts they care most about, but haven’t seen a very big response. But I’m excited that people are working on new stuff like Grapher and the meteor-tuts website as well, even if that isn’t directly improving the core stuff.

Where does Apollo stand with Meteor. Is it the future of Meteor ? Is it a sister project ? Is is a replacement framework (ala Angular 2.0) ?

It’s a sister project, which embodies some of the core values in a different way. People are starting to use them together and we’re doing so in our own production apps. Our goal is to move Apollo more in the direction of the ease of use Meteor has, so that it can be a full replacement for livedata/ddp/mongo soon.

If we want more information (and to not be left in the dark) maybe start with the available channels?

That would be great, or we should find some new channels and agree on them. We simply can’t be everywhere at once. The reason there are somewhat limited channels for communication is because things turn out better if we (MDG) can focus our efforts on that since we can’t reply to every post or question.

[thea]

+1 to Sashko’s point here – as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I’d like to better understand what channels work best for people. A bit off-topic for this thread though.

That would be great, or we should find some new channels and agree on them. We simply can’t be everywhere at once. The reason there are somewhat limited channels for communication is because things turn out better if we (MDG) can focus our efforts on that since we can’t reply to every post or question.

[fvg]

This may have been answered somewhere else, but I’m currently not using JavaScript and couldn’t keep up with the news.

So my question is, what will Meteor actually be, when it’s not the ViewLayer and the DataLayer anymore, as those will be React/ Angular/ … and Apollo? Another build tool?

I just don’t know what would be left. Also, do you see a future for Meteor’s Account system? IMO, it’s the best system out there, even across languages.

[thea]

@fvg Definitely off topic for this particular thread. One way to make communication more streamlined is to prevent the tendency to burry MDG answers in unrelated threads.

Closing the thread now as it’s gotten pretty far off course – if anyone still has unanswered questions, please author a new thread in the appropriate category.