Meteor Daily News

Status Updates

It has been a while since the last release of a digest. The reason for this is that I am pretty busy with our startup and I am also commuting a lot which leaves very little time for a side project like Meteor Daily.

For the time being I am taking a pause from releasing digests, but I plan to continue with the project in the future. There will still be digests from time to time, but please do not expect daily updates. If I stumble upon good content, I will also post it to crater.io.

For weekly updates, you should definitely check out This Week in Meteor by Rishi Goomar.

Thanks to everyone who is subscribed to Meteor Daily. If you are not subscribed yet, you should subscribe anyways and you will get the updates once I resume the project.

Info

• crater.io has a new layout, site
• Cloud9 now has a Meteor Workspace, post

Content

• Do I really need nginx with my Meteor/Node.JS app?, post
• Meteor Composability, post

Packages

• A package for caching subscriptions, ccorcos:subs-cache

Info

• Meteor 1.0.4 RC is out, post

Content

• Reactive User Interfaces (React & Meteor), post
• Example of a native Mac OS X app built with Meteor using MacGap 2, post
• The Meteor Podcast - Episode #52, podcast
• This week in Meteor #4, post

Info

• MDG is bailing Google Groups and moving to forums.meteor.com, post

Content

• Docker, The Container War and Meteor, post
• The Meteor Podcast - Episode #51, podcast
• Customizing Login with OAuth, video

Meetups

• Devshop SF - February 2015, video

Info

• We Work Meteor was updated, site

Content

• New features coming to Blaze, post
• Introducing Multi-Core Support, post
• Environment settings and security, post
• Using MongoDB geospatial index, post
• Writing clean JS with ESLint and JS-Beautify, post, repo

Packages

• Inspect sent emails and assert on their content, xolvio:inbox-stub

Info

• Meteor Up now has SSL support, github
• Gagarin, a new testing framework, github

Content

• Debugging a Cordova App, post
• Quick tip: Highlight Templates, post
• A fork of Meteor called Meteor Universal enables you to run Meteor on yet unsupported architectures, post, site
• The Meteor Podcast - Episode #50, podcast
• Cucumber and Meteor, post

Packages

• Inspect and edit MongoDB Collections from within your app, site, msavin:mongol
• Get a notification in case your app has a syntax error, https://atmospherejs.com/smeevil/syntax-error-notifier

Info

• Windows support in devel, git

Content

• Meteor with Matt DeBergalis, podcast
• Cluster: A different kind of Load Balancer, post

Meetups

• DevShop London - January 2015
  • Tech Talks
    • Liam Wooding: Peer-to-peer multiplayer in Meteor, video
    • Michael Karliner: Meteor and the Internet of Things, video
  • Lightning Talks
    • Mark Woodbridge: Meteor at Chaser, video
    • Bernard Mordan: Famo.us in your Meteor project 3 ways, video
    • Richard Silverton: Meteor Page Swiper, video

Packages

• Client-side DDP inspector, lai:ddp-inspector

There will be no updates next week, as I will be on holiday. Have a nice weekend :)

Info

• Only today: Get 50% off of Meteor in Action, tweet
• MongoDB 3.0 announced, post

Content

• Style guide for cross-platform server-side development, hackpad

Packages

• Generate URL friendly slugs from a field with auto-incrementation to ensure unique URLs, todda00:friendly-slugs

Info

• Only tomorrow: Get 50% off of Meteor in Action, tweet

Content

• Style guide for cross-platform server-side development, hackpad

Packages

• Complete Google Analytics, Mixpanel, KISSmetrics (and more) integration, okgrow:analytics
• Scroll to the top of the page (or to a hash if given) after a route change in Iron Router, okgrow:iron-router-autoscroll

Info

• Minor breaking change in Template.parentData and Template.currentData, post
• Upcoming features in Blaze, post

Content

• Structuring your apps, post
• Where to talk about Meteor, post
• The Meteor Podcast - Episode #47, podcast

Meetups

• Meteor Devshop SF, video

Info

• Template-level subscriptions may be coming, github

Content

• How to access the photo library of mobile devices, tutorial
• Use package.json to use npm’s scripts, post

Tools

• Alfred workflow for browsing docs, repo

Packages

• A simple and lightweight mixin library for Sass, wolves:bourbon
• Lightweight recommendation engine for Meteor, samcorcos:recengine
• A wrapper for json2html, miro:json2html

Content

• The Meteor Podcast - Episode #46, podcast
• Integration Tests with Velocity and Jasmine, post
• Getting started with Meteor, post
• Building a SaaS with Meteor: Stripe (Part 1), post

Packages

• Create bundles for lazy-loading components (with authentication), numtel:privatesources

Info

• Meteor 1.0.3.1 released, post
• List of conferences accepting proposals, hackpad

Packages

• Speed up prototyping by automatically adding Iron Router routes, repo

Content

• Load templates on-demand using iron:router and ES6, example
• How to read and package text files, post

Meetups

• Devshop London - December 2014,
  • Alan Shaw: Meat Fighter 2 Turbo, video
  • Judit Greskovits: Portfolio Site, video
  • Richard Silverton: Publishing and modifying Meteor packages, video
  • Peter Jones: Testing with TinyTest, video
  • Michael Klein: Speaking Siri with agenda, video

Packages

• Run Robot Framework end-to-end tests for Meteor applications, rsbatech:robotframework
• Server-side Tracker.autorun, peerlibrary:server-autorun

Info

• Meteor 1.0.3 RC, post

Content

• How to do animations [part2], post
• Remind yourself to run Meteor with --settings, gist
• Essential security techniques for applications, git
• @arunoda’s Flow Components preview, video
• Pattern for creating server-only Methods, git
• Meteor Podcast - Episode #45, podcast

Packages

• Inversion of Control with Inverter, xolvio:inverter

Content

• Parallel CI: Blazing End-to-End Testing with Velocity, article, video, slides
• Google Analytics Events and Goals, post
• Meteor and Coffeescript, post

Packages

• A handy helper to read and write from your users profile, nerdmed:profile-helper
• A clientside javascript library for manipulating images before uploading, ccorcos:clientside-image-manipulation

Info

• New preview for Meteor for Windows, post

Content

• Implementing an instant search solution, tutorial
• How to do animations, tutorial

Packages

• Custom “typeahead” input type for AutoForm, comerc:autoform-typeahead
• Extended “contenteditable” input type for AutoForm, comerc:autoform-contenteditable2

Info

• Free BulletProof lesson for meetups, site

Content

• Cross-platform UIs for mobile Meteor apps, post
• Routing using Iron Router, tutorial

Packages

• Easy-to-use search with Blaze Components (+ Elastic Search Support), matteodem:easy-search

Content

• Pattern: Two-Tiered Methods, post

Built with Meteor

• Yes Yes Y’all, site

Content

• How to read and package text files, post
• Meteor Podcast - Episode #44, podcast
• Wrapping a 3rd party library into a package, post
• Setting up oplog-tailing for your production app, post
• Debugging server side REST calls with mitmproxy, post
• Latency Compensation, part1, part2

Merry Christmas

I hope you are enjoying the holidays!

The year will end soon, so I would like to do a best of 2014 with you. Use the comments to list your favorite Meteor-related memories from 2014. It can be things like super helpful blog posts, fantastic packages, nice articles or cool sites in production. Just anything you particularly liked.

Please provide a short summary on why that resource really helped you and a link to it in your comments – you can use HTML tags.

Looking forward to hear about your highlights :)

As not a lot of things happen when everybody is on holiday, there is not much to report. So, I will take a break from Meteor Daily until 2015 starts. Wishing you all a happy new year!

Info

• Meteor 1.0.2 released, post
• December Devshop SF: Advances in MongoDB scalability, Meteor + Polymer, reactive MySQL, and more, post

Content

• Alpheratz deployment overview, post
• Backing up MongoDB to your local machine, post

Content

• Adding attributes when creating a new user, post
• MeteorHacks Show 2 – Recording and Follow-up Blog Posts, post

Meetups

• Meteor LA - December, site

Info

• New Iron Router release, tweet, iron:router

Content

• @imslavko’s talk for JSConf Asia: Reactive Programming made simple, video
• Meteor Pattern: Template-Level Subscriptions, post
• What is Meteor?, post
• MeteorHacks Liveshow follow-up (SSR for SEO Purposes), post

Packages

• Session inspector, site, msavin:sessioninspector
• MeteorHacks Flow, meteorhacks:flow-components, meteorhacks:flow-router

Info

• Meteor 1.0.2 RC, announcement, git

Content

• Blazing fast packages search, git, site
• Reactivity basics: Meteor’s magic demystified, post
• Scheduling events in the future (email example), post
• Meteor Podcast - Episode #43, video

Packages

• Interact with your server as a REPL live with admin privileges, doctorpangloss:admin

Content

• Key technical and community lessons from Meteor 1.0, video, slides, post mdg
• Using MongoDB aggregations to power a publication, post
• A site rendered purely on the server by @arunoda, demo, source

Meetups

• DevShop SF, Dezember 2014
  • Eliot Horowitz: Advances in MongoDB scalability, video
  • Differential: Meteor + Polymer, video
  • Rahul Choudhury: Animating all the things, video
  • Brad Vogel & Olof Mathé: Mixmax for Gmail, video
  • Michael Nagle: Rainbow Reader, video
  • Phil Cockfield: Getting started with UIHarness, video
  • Ben Green: Exploring Reactive MySQL, video

Info

• The Meteor Mobile Book can be pre-ordered on kickstarter, site paid

Content

• Worldwide Meteor Day recap, post mdg
• @imslavko on real-time sync using MongoDB or redis, video mdg
• A round-up of text editors for development, post
• 9 ways Meteor 1.0 will take you out of this world, post
• The fastest loading screen for your app, post
• Don’t do, react! Understanding reactive programming, post
• Meteor on Windows, post

Packages

• A new jade file extension is coming, post, mquandalle:jade
• A drop-in markdown blog for your app, xolvio:md-blog

Info

• Meteor Security Fix for allow/deny rules, disc, post

Content

• Meteor Podcast - Episode #42 (this time as a video), video
• The 7 testing modes of Meteor, post
• Revised free intro chapter of Meteor in Action, pdf
• Fine-grained user reactivity, post

Meetups

• Drupal Camp Asheville 2014,
  • Digital Signage with Drupal and Meteor.js, post, video
• DevShop SF - Dezember 2014
  • Eliot Horowitz: Advances in MongoDB scalability, video
  • Differential: Meteor + Polymer, video

Packages

• Provides a list of countries, chipcastle:countries
• Bulletproof payment processing logic, cwohlman:payments

Info

• Now you can use Fast Render with *.meteor.com and other shared domains, git
• You can now simply start typing to search Meteor’s documentation, docs, tweet

Content

• Telescope Hangout #3: Forms, Ads, and lots of questions, post, video
• Adding user comments to your app (with joins), tutorial
• Using Meteor Up with NginX vHosts, wiki
• Meteor Podcast - Episode #42, podcast

Meetups

• DevShop SF - December 2014, video

Packages

• A reactive timer and wrapper for momentjs to write time-dependent updates, remcoder:chronos
• Monitor your Collections in the browser during development, site, msavin:mongoinspector
• Package enabling sass or scss stylesheets, stevezhu:sass

Info

• Meteor Roadmap updated, trello
• MDG has Milestones on GitHub, github
• @dburles Spacebars reference updated for 1.0, post

Content

• Roll your own authentication, tutorial
• A look at local template state, post
• Meteor + Polymer, post

Content

• Analysis of 1740 Meteor apps, post
• Script to install, update and use the bleeding edge (devel) version of Meteor, git
• Two-factor authentication, tutorial

Packages

• Proper MongoDB aggregations support, meteorhacks:aggregate