Meteor Strike 0: Community Makes Us Great

Show notes

tecto and shrop talk about why the community needs another Meteor podcast and what is so great about open source communities.

• Why another Meteor podcast?
  • Focus on community and open source
  • Focus on package and other open source contributions
  • Shoutout to the https://modulesunraveled.com/podcast and the drupal community
    • Modules Unraveled has a nice
• What is a package?
  • http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/usingpackages
  • Writing packages
    • http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/writingpackages
    • https://themeteorchef.com/recipes/writing-a-package/
• Why would you want to write a package for Meteor?
  • To compartmentalize a set of functionality in an application to share with other internal applications and make it easier to follow how an application is constructed.
  • Easier to open source functionality to the community
• Resources
  • https://github.com/Urigo/awesome-meteor
  • https://atmosphere.com
  • https://fastosphere.meteor.com
• Package of the week:
  • https://atmospherejs.com/hb5/meteor-is.js
    • Simple package which wraps the is.js micro check library for client and server use
      • https://arasatasaygin.github.io/is.js/