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Wekan is an open-source kanban board (Trello like) which allows a card-based task and to-do management.
Wekan / General
Would you choose Meteor today?
Would you choose Meteor today?
Wekan/General · April 15, 2020 at 2:24pmWould 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?
April 16, 2020 at 3:50am
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
It's partly based on my wiki page https://github.com/wekan/demo/wiki/Roadmap
with all those no Javascript at frontend and PWA plans
problem is, I get stuck at the very beginning
Well, the reason why I started maintaining Wekan https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/FAQ#what-was-wekan-fork--wefork
was because original author tried to rewrite Wekan, and got tired in trying that
Also my own stats at ohloh https://www.openhub.net/accounts/xet7
and at Wekan repo https://github.com/wekan/wekan/graphs/contributors
those thousands of commits
Sure, I am looking at various frameworks. It's just that, moving a mountain is not easy.
Related issue about performance https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/787#issuecomment-613990330
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
Currently I'm releasing new Wekan versions often
Many contributions as pull requests from various individuals and companies from around the world
and updates to about 50 translated languages
Like, changing engine to train when at full speed is kind of hard
Sure I do various small tests to see if that would somehow be possible
April 16, 2020 at 6:39am
@xet7, thanks a lot for your time to answer in depth. Much appreciated.
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.
@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.
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
It's possible to use Svelte in Meteor https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/Roadmap.md
Wekan uses up-to-date newest Meteor, Node 12.x LTS etc dependencies that are compatible.
April 16, 2020 at 3:36pm
Consider Vue.js, Svelte, React Native, and Apollo as first-class citizen
That's great!