Stoked on Meteor — Make Meteor apps faster without errors

Xavier Cazalot
{ Hack, Learn } = Make
3 min readAug 9, 2016

We all want to build better Meteor apps which are fast, efficient and easy to manage. This is not a utopia: Kadira makes this promise for you.

Credits to MadeByElvis, awesome designer

Note: this article is part of a series called Stoked on Meteor, the introduction and the syllabus can be found on this article: The Goal is to Learn. Enjoy your read!

Everyone can manage to reach this point where they are in pure confidence with how they monitor their Meteor app.

Understand how Meteor works

Such a service may not convince you at first that you need it. After all, you have been doing great so far.

No bother, but what if I tell you can discover some tricks about the core Meteor you may not have heard? It’s time to learn how Meteor works, in an accessible and understandable way thanks to the Bulletproof Meteor course.

BulletProof Meteor covers most of the things you need to know about building a production Meteor app, including:

  • Performance
  • Best practices
  • Database modeling
  • Meteor-related architectural patterns

Every lesson is composed of several chapters coming along with a short quizz, skippable, to help you for acknowledging your new learnings.

It worth a look and it surely will help you a lot in your daily work, I highly recommend to check it out :)

Monitor your app to its depth

Kadira Platform helps your team to improve the performance of your app at any stage in its life cycle.

Yep, that’s not just a one-use feature. That’s a whole platform to make your app bulletproof. Speaking of bulletproof, the course I described you earlier will help you for getting a grip on the some parts of the platform like Kadira Debug or Kadira APM.

These services are excellent and may change your developer life, give it a try, and you’ll see!

Perform in-depth in every situation

If you want to know more about how the machine works and how to optimize it, I’d recommend reading the articles of Meteor Performance 101.

With all these resources, you know what’s going in your app. Now it’s time to implement it in your app to make it faster and make your customers happy ;)

Well, huge thanks to the Kadira team and Arunoda for empowering the Meteor community and the whole Javascript ecosystem.

You can read more about them on their blog.

SpaceDojo uploaded a Code Kata on how to use Kadira. Having an overview is interesting! Check it out here:

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And finally, if this was useful, please tap the 💚 button below. Thanks!

I’m Xavier, a happy fellow working everyday with MeteorJS as a consultant software engineer.

I want to spread the word that working with this techno is awesome and that you should get your hands on it!

You can find me on Twitter: @xav_cz

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