Meteor
Dev tools
web framework
SHOW HN2012
1,386points
322comments
#2of 1,677 in 2012
Top 1%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
54 positive, 78 neutral or asking, 12 mixed, 71 critical, out of 215 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 31 for, 12 againstExecution: 0 for, 18 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 15 againstDesign: 5 for, 5 againstPricing: 1 for, 4 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive demo and presentation
From 3 comments
Just watched the entire demo. First time I heard two people present a product together - definitely makes it a lot more interesting and much less monotonous. After the first…
chime on HNBig props on stellar presentation. The code is impressive, but even better is their slick install, deploy, docs, screencast and examples. This looks big. If nothing else,…
bryanh on HNVery cool implementation, and fantastic site and video! I grabbed the source to see what it would take to write a mysql plugin. As far as I can tell, it's fairly well tied into…
enobrev on HN
Feels like early Rails in its potential
From 1 comment
This feels to me a lot like how Rails felt back in 2005. A fundamental leap forward and an understanding of where web technology is going. I haven't felt that way about Node.js…
luigi on HN
Objections
Client-side database access raises security concerns
From 3 comments
"You can use the database api on the client!" Does that freak anyone else out? Where are they doing permissions checking? Who can run what database commands under what…
rabidsnail on HNI'm surprised no one is talking about the glaring hole, which is security. It's apparently on the developers' short list of high priority features…
erikpukinskis on HNThe live demo is here: http://colors.meteor.com/ Seems to have a minor glitch with unicode characters? When you do Colors.remove() everything goes away, but the entries with…
defeated on HN
Curl-pipe-sh installation is unsafe
From 2 comments
This is a very uncool way to install something: ``` $ curl install.meteor.com | /bin/sh ```
delano on HNOne comment on the screencast, isn't encouraging people to do ``` curl $URI | sh ``` a really bad idea?
xxpor on HN
Server-rendered HTML missing, hurting crawlers
From 1 comment
I got very excited after watching that video. Meteor does a great job at hitting a lot of things a new web framework requires. However, I then viewed the source on meteor.com. It…
gsharma on HN
Requests
Support for SQL databases beyond MongoDB
From 1 comment
Very cool implementation, and fantastic site and video! I grabbed the source to see what it would take to write a mysql plugin. As far as I can tell, it's fairly well tied into…
enobrev on HN
CoffeeScript support
From 2 comments
Big props on stellar presentation. The code is impressive, but even better is their slick install, deploy, docs, screencast and examples. This looks big. If nothing else,…
bryanh on HNLooks interesting, but.. ``` $ curl install.meteor.com | sh Unable to install. Meteor supports RedHat and Debian. Installation failed. ``` However the slow start description in…
tete on HN
Static HTML serving for crawlers
From 1 comment
I got very excited after watching that video. Meteor does a great job at hitting a lot of things a new web framework requires. However, I then viewed the source on meteor.com. It…
gsharma on HN
Questions
How are permissions and security enforced on client writes?
From 2 comments
"You can use the database api on the client!" Does that freak anyone else out? Where are they doing permissions checking? Who can run what database commands under what…
rabidsnail on HNI'm surprised no one is talking about the glaring hole, which is security. It's apparently on the developers' short list of high priority features…
erikpukinskis on HN
How does conflict handling work?
From 1 comment
This is very neat. I've been using Backbone + ShareJS[1] to do a lot of similar things for a current app I'm building. This is certainly nicer, though, with concepts like latency…
silverlight on HN
Is GPL viable for a web framework?
From 1 comment
Is GPL really viable for a web framework? The Free Software Foundation has consistently held that linking to GPL code (not LGPL) is derived work.
equark on HN
What is the monetization plan?
From 1 comment
This looks extremely interesting, and reminds me a bit of Lunascript (http://asana.com/luna/). I'm very interested in who is paying for the development? I notice that there's no…
beggi on HN
Alternatives named
Asana Luna
From 2 comments
This looks extremely interesting, and reminds me a bit of Lunascript (http://asana.com/luna/). I'm very interested in who is paying for the development? I notice that there's no…
beggi on HNNeat. Sounds a bit like Asana's Luna: http://asana.com/luna/
tlrobinson on HN
SocketStream
From 1 comment
Looks interesting, but.. ``` $ curl install.meteor.com | sh Unable to install. Meteor supports RedHat and Debian. Installation failed. ``` However the slow start description in…
tete on HN
Firebase
From 1 comment
Interesting (and smart) that they post to Hacker News a couple of days prior to the launch of Firebase (which provided the realtime functionality used by MMO Asteroids and has…
jaredsohn on HN
Backbone with ShareJS
From 1 comment
This is very neat. I've been using Backbone + ShareJS[1] to do a lot of similar things for a current app I'm building. This is certainly nicer, though, with concepts like latency…
silverlight on HN