Meteor in the Wild: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reactive Programming

https://joinjspot.com/blog/meteor-in-the-wild

by belisarius222 • 13 years ago

63 35 13 years ago

ams6110• 13 years ago

Might be a good idea to at least put

  <noscript>This page requires JavaScript</noscript>

on your site. All I see an expanse of white.

aroman• 13 years ago

The last few lines of the article shed some light on OP's opinion of browsing with JavaScript disabled:

"you need to support browsers that don't have JavaScript enabled.

... ok, that last one was sufficiently low-probability that I'll stop there before I start telling you not to use Meteor if your customers gave up their computers in favor of the abacus."

Volpe• 13 years ago

I don't quite understand the whole "I cripple my browser" thing. Like, if you are going to disable javascript, why not CSS, and if you disable both of those... by not disable the renderer and just read the html... or demand people write plain text websites. Javascript seems rather arbitrary...

But I do wonder about the accessibility ramifications of only supporting javascript. Do all browsers support javascript?

jacalata• 13 years ago

I'm running a boilerplate firefox and on first load, I saw the same thing.

saint-loup• 13 years ago

I'm sorry, but why would you put something like this in your CSS:

    text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.5);

It makes the text blurred and jarring.

stavrianos2• 13 years ago

Perhaps an attempt to force/fake font smoothing?

belisarius2222• 13 years ago

@saint-loup Good catch! That was old code, not noticeable in my usual browser. It's gone now.

paulyg• 13 years ago

"Coming soon on mobile. Check it out on your desktop or laptop." Really?

amadeus3• 13 years ago

How can Meteor be taken seriously with shit like this?

This site barely works... Simply hangs with spinning jewish logos...

gfodor3• 13 years ago

This could be anything, and be completely unrelated to meteor or related in a way that has no bearing on the claims of the article. He did just launch, after all.

amadeus3• 13 years ago

I've had a couple of my sites hit by Hacker News before, it's not that much traffic.

But I am perhaps a bit biased, I already think Meteor is a joke of a product.

sgdesign• 13 years ago

I posted my own Meteor app to HN the other day and it held up under traffic just fine: http://hnwishlist.com

So don't blame Meteor :)

debergalis2• 13 years ago

[meteor dev] Ted and Nick found the issue. The site was running in development mode (what you get with "$ meteor run") instead of the direct bundle. That's now fixed.

In development mode, we wrap the whole application inside a monitoring process that includes a proxy server. It's how we support hot code push on a laptop, among other things. But it's not a configuration we intended for production use at scale. We'll think about how to make a clearer recommendation in the docs.

pqdbr• 13 years ago

I liked the article a lot, got excited about giving Meteor a go for our next project, but then I checked out your website and got bummed. It takes +10 seconds to load ... the "loading " message. And then it just sits there, spinning the jewish logo.

jbm• 13 years ago

Can't access as my phone gets redirected to an empty mobile page.

primigenus• 13 years ago

I'm excited to try out your dating site given that it's built with Meteor and I'm a fan, but having to sign up three of my female friends to see it first is a buzz kill.

Perhaps you could consider a limited preview account for us HNers that doesn't let us date anyone but does let us check out what you built and sort of inspect things. That will help shine some positive light on Meteor with our crowd, many of whom will likely be unwilling to share an experimental Jewish dating site with their Facebook friends on a whim.

triplesec2• 13 years ago

yes, that's very "mid-period facebook" to force invitations on three friends (indeed I'm not sure that Facebook allows that any more for apps because of the annoyances). I'd also like to try it too, otherwise, since it's for both Jewish and Allies, as it were.

belisarius2222• 13 years ago

jspot dev here. fixed speed issue with help from Nick Martin from Meteor. Turns out I was running a dev-mode proxy to auto-reload code, but Nick figured out we could bypass it in the nginx config. Should be much faster now.

ibudiallo2• 13 years ago

I guess your blog doesn't allow mobile, so I'm out. What's up with under construction just le the mobile user view it.

triplesec2• 13 years ago

You could try setting your mobile browser (default, or say Dolphin) to report itself as a desktop client. Workaround, and I usually have one of my mobile browsers set up like this for suboptimal mobile sites.

ibudiallo2• 13 years ago

You are right, but most of the time, when a website is that complicated to access, it is not worth it.

orangethirty• 13 years ago

First time it did not load after waiting 32 seconds. Second time it did load, but after waiting 7 seconds.

svachalek• 13 years ago

I think Meteor is fantastic in most respects but the REST-unfriendliness of it is a little puzzling in this day and age. It would be really nice to see it play well with others.

debergalis2• 13 years ago

[meteor dev]

Thanks. We're getting close to implementing a principled approach to REST endpoints and server-side routing. https://trello.com/card/page-model-server-side-rendering-res...

mcot2• 13 years ago

I would be a lot more interested in meteor if it took more of a library approach and wasn't tied specifically to node.js and mongodb.

I understand they are moving towards this by having a protocol and different adapters for other databases.

adambom• 13 years ago

This doesn't work on my computer. Do I need to have Javascript installed? How do I do that?

krapp• 13 years ago

Use a modern browser.

stuffihavemade• 13 years ago

What are the advantages to using Meteor over Rails/Django/Express, etc., for a dating site? Sure, the client server model is compelling, but you're giving up not only the Ruby/Python ecosystem, but the Node one as well. Did you consider something like Derby.js, which uses npm and is built on express?

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