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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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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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                          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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