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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 21, 2019 at 8:30am

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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                            as soon as .net3 with blazor (official technology) is released in autuum we are going switch our in house applications at scherdel (https://github.com/scherdel) away from frontend angular and aurelia to .net blazor.

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                              the invented and opened great developer products during the last 4 years. we would invest some(!) hours a week of 2-4 developers in a wekan rewrite with this.

                              (i have to discuss this with the team :-))

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                                August 9, 2019 at 2:24pm

                                @road42 Did you implement some feature for Wekan? Or try to implement something? Did it got stuck somewhere?

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                                  @road42 I don't know is reimplementing Wekan possible with some hours a week of 2-4 developers. Developing Wekan has taken many years of full time development.

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                                    of many Wekan contributors

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                                      Since starting maintaining Wekan 2016-12 I have done about 300 releases of Wekan, with new features and fixes, now Wekan version being 3.x

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                                        Original author of Wekan got tired when trying to reimplement his own created Wekan, so there were not merging of pull requests for 2 months

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                                          September 4, 2019 at 6:42am

                                          @xet7 I don't know if it's possible. But the backend should be portable in a few months, as soon as the structure exists.

                                          More difficult may be the frontend mostly without javascript in blazor as it's a new technology.

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                                            September 4, 2019 at 8:30am

                                            @road42 backend portable? What do you mean?

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                                              @road42 Are you trying to do frontend without Javascript? How do you do drag and drop?

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                                                @road42 Yes I'm very interested in any progress you can make with rewrite

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