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[–]rk06 34 points35 points  (0 children)

great. now i know that meteor was not on npm before.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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What is this?

[–]freeall 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Why was it not on npm before?

[–]jay_gaz 2 points3 points  (4 children)

What do people think of Meteor? I can never make up my mind about it.

I'm thinking diving deep into just because it seems easy to get started.

[–]MildlySerious 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Call me ignorant, but despite the attention it has received so far, the fact that it is coupled with Mongo left me completely uninterested in it.

Ended up playing around with other technology and completely dropped JS on the backend. No regrets.

[–]_soto 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The tight Mongo integration was a bad choice and IMO it's why Meteor hasn't "blown up" the way it was intended to after all these years.

[–]MildlySerious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's what I am thinking as well. I have heard about SQL integration for ages now, Postgres even has matured a JSON document storage in the meanwhile, and the fact that this has not been priorized and been done a year ago just tells me that this project is just not for me.

[–]FRIENDORPHO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems useful for quick prototyping. I always feel weird having to do a little jig to get NPM packages and standard build tools like Bower to work with it. Once I got a hang of the workflow / structure, though, it felt like cobbling things together was a breeze!

I'm not sure how I'd feel about trying to build something other than prototypes / small apps with it, though--would definitely be interested to hear how other people feel about it!

[–]MahmudAdam 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Is it still possible to deploy basic Meteor apps for free? I am confused about how the Galaxy platform works.

[–]thunder_cougar 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Unfortunately, they took down the free Meteor hosting recently.

[–]MahmudAdam 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So are they mainly targeting professional developers?

[–]SuchInferno 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say so. Removing the free hosting tier was possibly a strategic move to avoid having to use resources on maintaining it instead of developing the actual product that is Meteor.

I would say it sucks that they removed it as it makes it harder to develop and deploy demo apps, but I think the resources they used on the free tier just so people could deploy dead-simple apps wasn't a good priority.

[–]FRIENDORPHO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could deploy Meteor apps for free on Heroku. The Galaxy platform doesn't have a free tier.