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Wow, Sacha! 10 years already. Meteor was one of the first Javascript frameworks which gave me joy. Maybe the closest to that today is Imba. Realtime all the time was performance heavy for sure but so much fun. I recently saw https://liveblocks.io/ which is trying to do realtime primitives for the wave. Discover Meteor was one of the first "modern" programming framework books I bought and I still remember the book built on an example which was missing from a lot of books in that era. Wish you all the best. Modern JS is a complicated mess. I would love to go back to that era where people were trying to do magical things with one api call. Hooks in React is more complicated than a whole library from that era. That is not a good thing. In 10 years we should have had far more higher level tools. Wish you all the best. Meteor gave me a lot of joy. Maybe I will try building something with it again to see where it's at.
Too long ago, I had written a lunch-planner as a joke to mock how much time we were losing by discussing what to eat at the office (and it even was used in a non-sarcastic way, to my own amazement), and I used meteor because it just worked.
2 years ago I said, I wonder if it works still, and I installed meteor, did an update and voila! It worked, just million times faster to build and much more responsive: https://github.com/egeozcan/lunchplanner/commit/91541a637531...
Even the built-in account system still works!!
Of course, it's not a serious project but I'm just very positively surprised how great of a DX Meteor has.
Real-time by default for everything is really a fun way to write web apps. A little bit inspired by Meteor we've build Thin Backend, which provides a real-time API for querying data and writing to a postgres database. If you're interested, check it out at https://thin.dev/ or check the demo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jj19fpkd2c
ReactiveVar was my favorite part. I wrote a clone of it [1] ReactiveState. It’s a PubSub that binds to the ‘state’ of one or more React class components.
Also, I wrote a clone of their ‘match’ library, I call it type-check [2].
Lastly, I made something like their DDP for my app. [3]
In summary, I highly appreciate Meteor’s ideas. In a sense, my app is architected based on them.
Thank you MDG!
1. https://github.com/uxtely/js-utils/tree/main/reactive-state
2.
deno run -A -r https://fresh.deno.dev my-project
