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Meteor's 2nd Life

Published: July 29, 2020, 1 p.m.

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Filipe N\xe9vola about Meteor and the exciting things happening in the Meteor world!

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Guests Show Notes

01:20 - What is your background?

03:41 - What exactly is Meteor?

12:00 - What are the biggest misconceptions of modern meteor?

18:20 - What do you say to people who think Meteor is dead?

21:33 - How does data get from your Meteor into your React app?

  • Example of getting data on client side
 import { useTracker } from 'meteor/react-meteor-data'  // Hook, basic use, everything in one component const MyProtectedPage = (pageId) => {   const { user, isLoggedIn, page } = useTracker(() => {     // The publication must also be secure     const subscription = Meteor.subscribe('page', pageId)     const page = Pages.findOne({ _id: pageId })     const user = Meteor.user()     const userId = Meteor.userId()     const isLoggingIn = Meteor.loggingIn()     return {       page,       isLoading: !subscription.ready(),       user,       userId,       isLoggingIn,       isLoggedIn: !!userId     }   }, [pageId])      if (!isLoggedIn) {     return        Create an Account       Log in        }      return      {page.title}     
{page.content}
      { e.preventDefault(); Meteor.logout(); }}>Log out ({user.username})    }

27:50 - What do you think is the ideal usecase for Meteor?

31:09 - Why did Meteor 1.0 fail to maintain hype?

36:41 - What does Meteor\u2019s future look like?

45:27 - Are there any plans to integrate serverless into Meteor?

46:55 - Any little known features of Meteor that people might be interested in?

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