Coming from Ruby on Rails, I really missed having an ORM available to me when I was working in Meteor.js. They offer a basic db layer called Collections, but it feels a little thin when you are first getting started. It leaves you wanting an easy way to decorate each model in a collection with…
Continue ReadingI love Meteor.js. One of the more fun and simultaneously frustrating aspects of the platform is the lack of any standards when it comes to 'How to organize your Meteor.js app'. Having worked on apps from scratch ( green-fielded ) and having taken over existing apps, I start to realize why having…
Continue ReadingI've written a few packages, as you may know: accounts-entry , shareIt , simple-form , etc. Within a few hours of 0.9 coming out today, I had github issues asking me to update those packages. I found some instructions scattered amongst hackpad documents, so I wanted to gather the steps I took to…
Continue ReadingI recently gave a talk at CinciJS about some of the things I've learned in the year I've been working with Meteor.js. Some of the topics I talked about include: Atmosphere Meteor NPM package integration Package namespacing Why javascript being everywhere is important Why Meteor.js is more than a…
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