Orbvt - a Svbtle/Obtvse clone in Meteor
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Made using the new Meteor JS framework @ http://meteor.com/
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Within 10 seconds my page was flooded with links directing me to conspiracy websites about 9/11 and people of the Jewish faith.
We've got some class-acts here on HN
Or-butt is the correct pronunciation.
Suggestions welcomed.
But yeah, the real reason for the HN post was to show how fast it is. Somebody that knew what they were doing could probably have done it in about 10 minutes, including the install.
I should also point out that the dev team is amazingly helpful in #meteor on freenode.
I do think that Svbtle is gorgeous though, and there are way worse things to have ripped off, IMO.
Otherwise, it's only about 15 lines of Javascript and a couple of Mustache templates. Perhaps you and I have different ideas of 'overkill'.
Consider that recently static site generators have been enjoying quite a popularity, as they enable you to have a very simple server-side system (static web server only, or something like Amazon's S3) and work well under load (being "slashdotted/reddited/HN'd"), without extensive caching.
By that same token, we'd consider Wordpress overkill for a blog too, right?
From my understanding, Meteor's focus is in probably the opposite trajectory as you're suggesting, but I also don't see any reason you couldn't use it to generate a static blog.
There's no need for it to be coupled to Mongo, so uninstall that. Then just implement a JS markdown parser to build a static file.
Of course, there's no need to use Meteor for this at all, as you could do it in straight up Node -- the enhancements you get from Meteor don't make this process any easier.
Well, a lot of the people using static site generators now came from Wordpress. Mostly because they fulfilled all the "requirements": Able to handle markup/scripting/deployment, no big need for all kinds of widgets and plugins, and the possibility of being subjected to overload (e.g. by posting here…).
One major feature of Wordpress and similar platforms is the editing/admin section, of course. Not everyone wants/can do everything with git. So I wasn't saying that there's no need for something like this at all…
Still, whether this is any worse than wordpress depends on the architecture, of course. Loading everything in client-side JavaScript doesn't need to be less efficient then generating it server-side. Good caching is possible, too.
You won't get an editing/admin section though, naturally, as you won't be able to save a file to the server from client-side JS. Something like this or Node bridges that gap.
Have you seen http://www.spintoapp.com/? It just launched here the other day, and might be exactly what you're looking for. (Jekyll as a Service, basically)
Other than that, Meteor looks like about the most awesome thing I've seen since Django, so I wanted to play with it.
Yes though, I have to concede that this demo is effectively useless in any meaningful sense of the word as, best case scenario is that users add anti-semitic remarks, and worst case is somewhere between inserting malicious JS and deleting all the posts.
I'd doubt this guy built the site to showoff Meteor AND his own agenda of hate, but you never know...
This does underscore the importance of them baking security into this framework properly, but I wouldn't let it detract from my overall excitement over Meteor itself
Sorry. :'(
I get the same behavior, but I also get it when I use Svbtle or Obtvse as well.