Ask HN: Is meteor.js still a thing?

I was a big fan of Meteor early on, but the decision to go Mongo and only Mongo killed my interest. I can't think of anything that I can do on Meteor that I can't do faster and better with a set of tools that I assemble myself.

I saw people talking about it all the time a few years ago, and then I saw some posts that described it as messy garbage, and I haven't seen much about it since then. Angular 1 went through the same process here on HN, except it's highs were higher and lows were lower.

The most recent JS trend is to complain about how trendy JS is and how hard it is to keep up.

A very legit question.

Given the amount of frameworks, libraries and `the correct way` of writing proper code and using the `correct` tools, I think meteor has his own place in the world, but I guess, there is much noise, and I guess they are not hot anymore.

Few years ago, meteor was the next big idea of the web, then:

angular

node

react

react native

ember

then no libraries anymore, as we can do it manually.

Even JQuery seems to recover and become a nice cool alternative :)

It is, but it's very targeted towards a specific use case. My company started out with Meteor given its ease of 2-way data binding a event listeners - not to mention built-in mobile support. It seemed like a great solution for rapid prototyping and proving our concept.

Since then, we've navigated away from Meteor to our own custom stack that better suits our needs.

Bottom line, it's freakin awesome for prototyping real-time web/mobile apps in a VERY short period of time. There are a few companies rolling it in production, though, it just depends on what you require.

Yes it is. To answer a few of the comments here, it's currently going through an overhaul. They are making integrating a lot better for certain tools and switching out others such as replacing their own virtual dom tool with React. They are also working on supporting other DBs besides Mongo (I believe they currently have Postgres support).

Basically, with skimping on details, they're really increasing in the future of the framework right now. You can check on their blog for more info and skim their accomplishments, upcoming releases, and current goals in the pipeline.

Yes and you can get a good idea of the activity by looking at the forums: https://forums.meteor.com/

One a similar note, what about Opa? http://opalang.org/

I believe they are going through a transition. Check out this blog post http://info.meteor.com/blog/meteor-night-1.3-and-beyond

Who knows if they will be successful, but there is opportunity to improve web development without being a javascript front-end library.

Yes: https://www.meteor.com/

Meteor is used a lot in Dapp development for Ethereum