Stoked on Meteor — Stay tuned with Crater
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!
Even though the goal is to learn, one wise advice I was given some day has been to not trying to know everything and filter what you want to learn to get the best and avoid well-known Javascript Fatigue.
Where real-time web & mobile dev news lands
High-quality news feed
Crater.io is a HackerNews-like web app built with Telescope, one of the biggest open-source app made with Meteor. It has been curating more than 700 Meteor news for 2 years and has been gathering an engaged community of fans keeping the content’s quality at a high level.
You can upvote the news you like, share interesting articles you found around the Web or promote your project to get feedback from the community!
My hope is that we can all learn and find ways to build great apps, even if that leads you outside of Meteor.
Since December 2015, Josh Owens, creator of Crater, has broadened the feed to non-Meteor related articles. And that’s cool! If you are curious, you can dive with pleasure in articles you may not have found unless going there.
Like the Medium digest, you can subscribe to the daily digest to get in your inbox every morning what happened on Crater lately.
Don’t want to take the time to read?
No worries, you can listen too!
Josh Owens & Abhi Aiyer host a weekly podcast to discuss Javascript news and especially the best and most interesting Crater posts this week.
It’s a lot of fun to listen to them and they know how to lead their hangout during 40 minutes: there are more than 100 editions by the time I’m writing this article.
Easy to follow, you can listen to it on iTunes, direct download on the official page or follow the Twitter feed. If you prefer to watch moving faces, you can even watch the discussion on YouTube.
Conference landing at your desk
Snacks prepared. Ready to learn live great content.
Last but not least in the Crater world, a remote conference about Javascript, Meteor and React was hosted this February on CrowdCast during 3 days with 12 different speakers, among them MDG members and Meteor community engines.
In a relaxed way, you listen to experts talking about many different subjects, from Reactive UI techniques to hacking Meteor with Pete Corey or understanding the choice of Arunoda to deal with GraphQL. You can ask questions lively and being answered at the end of the talk.
Like a short MOOC, but a lot better, you can find the talks on SpaceDojo’s Youtube channel. I highly recommend to have a look, it’s a gold mine of information!
By the way, a new remote conference is going start in one week ; it will cover mobile topics like React Native, Cordova, building mobile apps with Meteor, etc.
It’s still time to get your ticket, check the line-up at http://conf.crater.io/
Q&A with Josh Owens
Crater’s owner
« Ask Me Anything » sessions on Crater.io are engaging. Are regular editions expectable in the future?
That is my goal with the AMA’s going forward on Crater. It is a lot of time and effort to think up who to ask and to get them to commit. I really want to get the site updated to React/Nova branch of Telescope before I push it more. Also, would love some help in that regard, getting people lined up and going, etc
In which direction are heading the next 100 editions of Crater Podcast?
I’m not sure the direction will change a lot, but I plan to talk to Abhi and we are always open to ideas. I just hope our listener base enjoys the podcast and continues to listen and we keep growing on that front.
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Thanks Josh for answering my questions, follow him on Twitter!
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👋 By the way, I’m Xavier, a happy fellow working everyday with MeteorJS as a consultant 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
