Meteor
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Meteor, or MeteorJS, is a free and open-source isomorphic JavaScript web framework[1] written using Node.js. Meteor allows for rapid prototyping and produces cross-platform (Android, iOS, Web) code. It integrates with MongoDB and uses the Distributed Data Protocol and a publish–subscribe pattern to automatically propagate data changes to clients without requiring the developer to write any synchronization code. On the client, Meteor can be used with its own Blaze templating engine, as well as with the Angular or React frameworks.
Meteor is developed by the Meteor Development Group. The startup was incubated by Y Combinator[2] and received $11.2M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz in July 2012.[3] Meteor raised an additional $20M in Series B funding from Matrix Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Trinity Ventures.[4] It intends to become profitable by offering Galaxy, an enterprise-grade hosting environment for Meteor applications.[5]
History
Having been in development for about 8 months, Meteor was initially released in December 2011 under the name Skybreak[6]. By April 2012, the framework was renamed Meteor and officially launched[7]. During the next few months, and with the help of large investments from Andreessen Horowitz and endorsements from high-profile figures in the startup world[7], Meteor steadily increased its user base and became more commonly used in production websites.
Particularly after receiving large amounts of venture capital in its Series B funding round, Meteor acquired and integrated several other startups into its core product. Acquisitions have included FathomDB, a cloud database startup[8], Galaxy, a cloud platform for operating and managing Meteor applications[9], and Kadira, a performance monitoring solution[10]. Unlike its competitors React, AngularJS, and Ember.js, Meteor has successfully monetized its userbase: In 2016, Meteor beat its own revenue goals by 30% by offering web hosting for Meteor apps through Galaxy[11].
From 2016 the Meteor Development Group (the open source organisation powering Meteor) started working on a new backend layer based on GraphQL to gradually replace their pub/sub system, largely isolated in the whole node.js ecosystem: the Apollo framework.
Books
- Coleman, Tom; Greif, Sacha - Discover Meteor (2014)[12]
- Hochhaus, Stephan; Schoebel, Manuel - Meteor in Action (2014)[13]
- Müns, Philipp - Auditing Meteor Applications (2016)
- Strack, Isaac - Getting started with Meteor.js JavaScript framework (2012)[14]
- Susiripala, Arunoda - Bulletproof Meteor (2014)[15]
- Susiripala, Arunoda - Meteor Explained - A Journey Into Meteor’s Reactivity (2014)[16]
- Turnbull, David - Your First Meteor Application: A Complete Beginner's Guide to the Meteor JavaScript Framework (2014)[17]
Packages and Tools
- Meteor Toys - in-app development tools [18]
- Meteor Candy - in-app admin panel [19]
- InjectDetect - database injection attack detection [20]
- Vulcan.js - React/GraphQL stack built on top of Meteor [21]
- Apollo - GraphQL server with support for Meteor
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