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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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August 9, 2019 at 2:32pm

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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          September 11, 2019 at 2:56pm

          Oops, there is writing on the wall, Node.js v10 has dropped 32bit Linux https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/10527

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            It's so crazy to drop some support

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              I would prefer to add more Wekan platforms

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                Go is also bad https://golang.org/doc/go1.13 "Darwin: As announced in the Go 1.12 release notes, Go 1.13 now requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later; support for previous versions has been discontinued."

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                  It's like, some hardware can not run newer operating systems

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                    Like newest Windows 10 does not run on all hardware that previous Windows 10 did

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                      It's just crazy

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                        I'm currently looking at FreePascal and Lazarus. Newest FreePascal https://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_New_Features_3.2 has added support for Amiga and Windows 3.0 and newer.

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                          I would like to run Wekan on all of my hardware. On current so much hardware and software is obsoleted at crazy speeds. Talk about electrical waste.

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                            Other alternative is Haxe, because it can compile to many other programming languages, for example Lua, that is available for Amiga.

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                              In Haxe case if some programming language shoots itself into foot, I could compile to some other programming language.

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                                Although currently Haxe 4.0 beta is in heavy development, there is some breaking changes so that some haxetink https://haxetink.github.io libraries do not work, and those breaking changes are such that currently they are impossible to abstract over, it needs some fixes

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                                  They are just thinking of it as a sport to install always latest Haxe nightly and latest git version and fix things in the fly as they come

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                                    It's the same as do Ruby on Rails users, they follow current git version https://github.blog/2019-09-09-running-github-on-rails-6-0/

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                                      And try to get fixes to it immediately as they happen

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                                        Python going to Python 3.x is the same

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                                          Nim https://nim-lang.org/ also, I do like Nim Forum software that is Nim+SQLite https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum but it does not compile anymore with newest Nim

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                                            Rust is same, each big company has their own build systems https://gist.github.com/rylev/0e3c3895dcb40b6a1c1cf8c427c01b5e

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                                              Does this need to be "move fast and break things" ?

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                                                Yes it's also about libraries that each programming language has

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