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Comment by victor106 | Hacker News Reader

> Vanila crew is in love with Meteor.js, which is latest technology based on JavaScript (Node.js).

Surprised to see this. I thought the development of meteor.js has stopped.

One of the reasons I actually am a bit sad they removed Meteor from this version of Wireflow is that Meteor assumes storage is server-side, instead of using localStorage, which I find a very irritating trait of "modern" web apps, where everything you did is forgotten when you switch devices or browsers, clear your cache, or what-have-you.

My impression of Meteor over involvement with a Meteor-based project for a long time is that Meteor was seen as cool when you sit and play with the demo code, but once you're out in production projects it starts to get pretty hairy. It seems to work pretty well for side projects, but probably isn't super ideal to build your business on.

FWIW, it's been pretty stable though for a number of years, and stability is severely underrated in web dev.

Meteor has been under active development for a long time. It's not nearly as hot as it was 5-6 years ago, but it's still definitely a thing. A lot of the team that built Meteor went on to work on Apollo, the GraphQL data library. One of my companies has a Meteor based app...

Meteor.js has newest Node.js LTS etc dependencies, and is actively maintained.

Actually vanila crew moved away from meteor.js but hadn't have enough time to update the landing page to current trend (next.js reactjs etc.). You know technology changes a lot.

I was under a similar impression. I recall it being a midly interesting idea, before a lot of people determined it had too many issues and it fizzled out and the company began to push some other project.

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