beefmanon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time?”
The original Meteor pitch was pretty great link to this video Got them an $11M Series A from a16z, which was big at the time. But who's in this video? Geoff and Matt?
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Web developmentJavaScriptVue, Svelte, Angular and othersFull-stack frameworks
This 2012 screencast introduces the Meteor JavaScript framework, demonstrating real-time updates, latency compensation, and low boilerplate.
Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.Why it's here
1 person recommends thisWhat people say. Engineers recommend it as a classic, highly effective developer tool pitch that demonstrated the power of real-time web applications.
avitalon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?”
At Meteor, we're building a complete open-source platform for easily building best-of-class, fast, web and mobile apps. If you've never heard about Meteor, check out the original screencast: link to this video (needless to say, lots have changed since then -- most notably a security model :) Meteor touches all parts of an application stack (client-side templating1, live database updates2, a websocket-based sync protocol3, an "all you need" build tool4 that can build mobile and web apps, an in-house "transparent reactive programming" library5, a cloud hosting environment6 built on Docker and Kubernetes, and the list goes on -- all with a very very strong emphasis on great developer experienc…
primigenuson Hacker News • Mentions
On “Optimistic UI with Meteor”
Latency compensation/optimistic UIs is one of the first things that clued me into why Meteor is so great back in 2012 when I watched the original screencast: link to this video The reason is actually a common theme throughout Meteor: boilerplate code, and somewhat relatedly "devops" type code, are taken care of by the platform so you get to focus on building your app. It's such a big focus of Meteor's design compared to every other platform, and it's what's kept me coming back for three years. In fact, it's surprising that so few other platforms have picked up on the fact that eradicating boilerplate is a feature, and they should compete on it. Maybe with more posts like this, they'll be inspired to he…