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Wekan is an open-source kanban board (Trello like) which allows a card-based task and to-do management.

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Meteor alternatives?

Meteor alternatives?

Wekan / General · June 20, 2019 at 2:53am

Hey guys, I built an Open Source app in Meteor a while ago (it actually had Kanban functionality as well, funnily enough), but as we all know Meteor is showing it's age and the community seems to now be non-existent.

What tech stack would you guys recommend as a modern alternative to Meteor? Any plans for Wekan to migrate to something else?

I really would love to not have to start from scratch on my project, but I don't really think I have a choice anymore with Meteor. Between the memory consumption and build sizes, it's just no longer a feasible option.

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June 20, 2019 at 9:06am

Well, depends if community helps building it https://github.com/wekan/demo/wiki/Roadmap

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    For CloudFlare workers global minimum latency kanban on edge

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      And at https://github.com/wekan is small tests for various programming languages

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        Currently I'm just fixing and adding features to Meteor-bases Wekan

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          based

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            June 20, 2019 at 11:58pm

            So it sounds like, yes, you are looking to move away from Meteor, but haven't settled on an alternative stack yet. Correct?

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              June 21, 2019 at 7:39am

              Yes. I would like to have support for many databases with some ORM or other database abstraction, like SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, CloudFlare keyvalue store, etc.

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                I also have problems building fibers on arm. Meteor does not by default support arm.

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                  Meteor is about 2 GB of javascript.

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                    For Raspberry Pi, I would use some compiled language, like Haxe to C++ to binary

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                      Question also is, how would I move all this current Wekan features etc functionality to new framework? I'm not sure I understand all parts how current Wekan works.

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                        Although, I could try to get new framework working step by step, like I have done incremental improvements to Wekan since 2016-12.

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                          I did start maintaining Wekan 2016-12 because previous maintainer and author of Wekan got tired when trying to rewrite Wekan.

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                            Well, maybe if I start from cloudflare-worker-todos, and try to add support for other databases like SQLite, to run it on Raspberry Pi. Maybe that could be a start.

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                              or, adding some NPM orm package to support many databases

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                                June 21, 2019 at 11:13am

                                I have tried some alternative stacks, and on those I have got stuck with some missing feature or functionality. And then someone has asked for fixes/features for current Wekan, and I have continued at those. Meteor is full-stack framework, but is there some other similar full stack framework with same or more features? And how it would be possible to migrate between stacks?

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                                  June 26, 2019 at 8:55am

                                  Some progress. I got https://github.com/wekan/cloudflare-workers-todos deployed to CloudFlare workers+keyvalue store, at address https://todo.wekan.team . Setting it up was suprisingly easy, I found from CloudFlare forums how to link keyvalue store name. Most likely I would need to make more clear docs or video about how to setup it.

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                                    It's very little amount of javascript that is at workers directory. Some HTML+JS+CSS code is at frontend, that makes post request to backend. Both frontend and backend are at same Javascript file. There is also some library loaded from CDN.

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                                      It's vanilla javascript TodoMVC with CloudFlare backend.

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                                        August 6, 2019 at 7:53pm

                                        I am waiting for asp.net blazor. this should give everything we need. but i'll be a nearly full redevelopment.

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                                          Hey, just go ahead and try ;)

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                                            actually, asp.net is not yet listed at https://github.com/wekan/demo/wiki/Roadmap , I should add it ;)

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                                              I don't know any other frameworks so well as Meteor. So it would really need contributors that know some other framework very well, to do it.

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                                                August 9, 2019 at 4:49am

                                                We already thought about rewriting wekan after we did some of the changes and got in contact with meteor :-)

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