Express VS Meteor JS

Finally, I’ve chosen Express.js to build the API server. Express is a flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications. Its simplicity and flexibility make it an ideal choice for the CMS project, allowing us to build powerful APIs with minimal hassle.

I use Express and Jest, but only enough to give you something to start with. You can substitute these out for your favorite web and test framework.

The API is a powerful blend of Node.js + Express. When evaluating backend combinations, a crucial aspect is that it can be deployed in any environment. Hence, vendor-locked options like Next.js were excluded from the candidate list.

After searching for hours and hours, I finally found an issue requesting to Dockerize the application. It was a full-stack social media application called ChatRoom, with a React Frontend and an Express.js Backend. Even though the project was fairly new, and not super complex, it was exactly what I was looking for this time.

Community stats: The official Express GitHub repository has 62.1k stars and 11.7k forks. The Express mailing list has over 5000 discussions which can be used as an issue library when you encounter a bug while developing an Express application.

Express is the most popular and minimalistic web framework for NodeJS. Express is designed to simplify the backend application development with a robust set of features including routing, middleware, error handling, and templating.

Express: Express is a fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js.

To demonstrate how to set up preview environments for a GitHub repository, we'll work with an example repository containing a basic Node.js web app built with Express. The application responds to requests with a simple "hello world" message.

Use NPM to install the plugin package, express web server package, and the Ably client library:

Community stats: The Meteor.js GitHub repository has an active community with 43.8k stars and 5.4k forks.

Finally, the release of Node 16 became basically incompatible with fibers and thus, Meteor.js got stuck on Node 14. This implied a major rewrite of a large potion of the platform's internals as it all depended on fibers. Further, it implied that all Meteor.js projects and packages required a major rewrite as well.

So, I found this project to be at release 0.8.3, which is from June, 2014. The latest available documentation are the release 1.3 docs. The related 1.3 release is tagged on GitHub from 2016, so there is basically a gap of two years in between this.

You need to have Meteor installed on your system. Follow the Meteor installation instructions on the Meteor website.

Meteor.js is a full-stack JavaScript platform for developing modern web and mobile applications. Meteor includes a key set of technologies for building connected-client reactive applications, a build tool, and a curated set of packages from the Node.js and general JavaScript community.

Meteor.js is a full-stack platform that simplifies the development of web applications by providing a unified approach to building both the front-end and back-end. With real-time data updates, Meteor.js speeds up the development process and ensures you can create powerful applications.

The core of the issue is Mongo does not seem intended to be upgraded reliably without intervention. Sandstorm is running on thousands of servers where the admins aren't equipped to handle Mongo upgrade issues, as well as within some Sandstorm apps which also use Mongo inside containers not intended to be user servicable.

One of the issues we hit is here: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/11666 in which if you happened to have a Mongo database over eight years old, you needed manual intervention to correct it, even if you had done intermediate version updates in between.

This app is itself is a Next.js app that relies on Vulcan.js, a full-stack JavaScript framework that I originally created for Meteor, and that Eric Burel later ported to Next.js. But we will likely phase out the Vulcan.js part eventually to make it a more standard codebase.

Also, as a maintainer of an OSS project(MeteorJS) that has MongoDB as its first-class citizen, I wanted to see what other MongoDB drivers look like with other languages that are not JS. And got happy with the results.