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Would you choose Meteor today?

Wekan/General · April 15, 2020 at 2:24pm

Would you choose Meteor today?

Wekan / General · April 15, 2020 at 2:24pm (Edited 4 years ago)

I played around with Meteor in 2012, but in the end I left the framework behind because I felt that bigger projects would get pretty "bloated" over time. So I thought of Meteor as "suitable for smaller real-time based projects".

After working on Wekan for some time - would you choose Meteor again if you had to start over today? If not, which stack would you choose?

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April 16, 2020 at 3:47am

Lauri Ojansivu@xet7

Team

3:47am

up-to-date

3:50am

@boeserwolf What framework do you use?

4:01am

Well, I did sometime write blog article about it https://dev.to/xet7/illusion-of-differences-between-operating-systems-programming-languages-and-web-frameworks-4j8f

4:02am

It's partly based on my wiki page https://github.com/wekan/demo/wiki/Roadmap

4:02am

with all those no Javascript at frontend and PWA plans

4:02am

problem is, I get stuck at the very beginning

4:09am

Well, the reason why I started maintaining Wekan https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/FAQ#what-was-wekan-fork--wefork

4:09am

was because original author tried to rewrite Wekan, and got tired in trying that

4:23am

Also my own stats at ohloh https://www.openhub.net/accounts/xet7

4:24am

and at Wekan repo https://github.com/wekan/wekan/graphs/contributors

4:24am

those thousands of commits

4:27am

Sure, I am looking at various frameworks. It's just that, moving a mountain is not easy.

4:28am

Related issue about performance https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/787#issuecomment-613990330

4:30am

Also at Wekan Roadmap https://boards.wekan.team/b/D2SzJKZDS4Z48yeQH/wekan-open-source-kanban-board-with-mit-license I have promised to develop some big features to Wekan, and some customers have already paid

4:31am

Currently I'm releasing new Wekan versions often

4:31am

Many contributions as pull requests from various individuals and companies from around the world

4:32am

and updates to about 50 translated languages

4:32am

Like, changing engine to train when at full speed is kind of hard

4:45am

Sure I do various small tests to see if that would somehow be possible

April 16, 2020 at 6:39am

Bastian@boeserwolf

6:39am

@xet7, thanks a lot for your time to answer in depth. Much appreciated.

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6:46am

Lauri Ojansivu@xet7

It's like, I don't have 13 years to rewrite Wekan

Absolutely! And unfortunately, this is the typical situation you find yourself in when working on large projects in the software industry. You can't rewrite the whole thing, and besides, nobody wants to pay for it, so you're basically stuck with outdated frameworks / stacks.

7:13am

Lauri Ojansivu@xet7

@boeserwolf What framework do you use?

Well, it depends. I've worked with a few over the years, starting with jQuery (of course), Angular 1.x up to Angular 2 - 9 (popular in the German corporate environment), Meteor (which I was quite excited about in 2012), React / React Native and over the last two years I've been stuck with Aurelia 1. For smaller or private projects I tend to use Vue because it's just so quick and simple, and I want to look into Svelte.

7:15am

That said, if I want things to be robust and require very litte up to no maintenance, I tend to write it in the purest way possible (e. g. vanilla JS / PHP / C# / Go, whatever) and avoid external dependencies.

April 16, 2020 at 2:18pm

Lauri Ojansivu@xet7

Team

2:18pm

It's possible to use Svelte in Meteor https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/Roadmap.md

2:22pm

Wekan uses up-to-date newest Meteor, Node 12.x LTS etc dependencies that are compatible.