Meteor 1.3, Typescript, and React — Keep It Simple

Let’s talk about how Meteor enables an incredibly simple setup for using Meteor + Typescript + React.

Why version 1.3+ of Meteor is important is it has brought full support for Ecmascript modules, and first-class NPM…

I saw that yesterday and also thought the same thing. 2 weeks just doesn’t seem right.

I remember also being wowed initially by how easy it was to deploy a quick demo with Meteor.

If you’re looking elsewhere, have a look at Phoenix/Elixir. I dove in about 6 months ago and the water is great. If you…

A developer's problem

Things that don’t fill blog posts, but are worth remembering.

Today I want to write about something, which has been on my mind for quite some time.

A situation that every developer knows

Maybe you’re right, but I hope you don’t. Meteor is still to much in continuous evolution and that is source of troubles for many of us. Blaze announcement in favor of more fancy rendering frameworks like React has been a major point of uncertainty that threaten the stability of Meteor community. Blaze is not perfect but it’s pretty used by…

Structuring our meteor model packages

I’ve been working with meteor for almost 2 years. During that time I’ve lived many big changes and I’ve been adapting mmmelon alone (package system, flow router, react…).

Now we’re working hard on adding new features requested by users and also expecting our…

I’m on the fence. I think Blaze is great and I use it daily in the big app I’ve been building at work. I’ve never built anything more quickly than I have with Blaze. It’s simple to learn and easy to use. However, I also think that React is simple to learn and easy to use (in Meteor — it’s mega complex on its own). It’s also much more stable and…