Meteor Monthly Update — March 2023
Introduction
The most current Meteor announcements and modifications for February will be covered in this blog post, along with any upcoming updates. This includes the most recent version of Meteor, an update on Fibers’ development, a few tweaks to the Meteor Cloud, and fresh Meteor content.
Recap of Last Month 📆
In this post, we will look at the most noteworthy events that happened at Meteor during the month of February. Our team has been working relentlessly to offer you the most recent and exciting enhancements and features to Meteor. Well, let’s get started!
Meteor 2.11 ☄️
Meteor 2.10 was released to the public in February, and as of the writing of this article, the recommended version of Meteor is version 2.11, which is now available for download!
Some of the highlights of version 2.11 are as follows:
- Embedded Mongo now uses MongoDB 6.0.3
- Bump Typescript to v4.9.4 and many more!
- Optimized makeLookupFunction
- MongoDB Server 6.x Support
Our deepest gratitude goes out to the following people who helped make this happen:
While we continue to develop and improve Meteor, we really appreciate your patience.
The Meteor 2.11 changelog is available here, or you can read Gabriel Grubba’s blog post for more information.
New Fibers Public Roadmap 🛣️
We published a link to the Fibers checklist last month, and we are delighted to present a new public Fibers roadmap this month. This was done to make communication and information sharing easier for Meteor Software and our valued community members.
As many of you are aware, Meteor has always been committed to provide the ideal platform for online and mobile app development. We acknowledge, however, that there is always opportunity for improvement, which is why we are presenting this revised plan.
The weekly updates from Henrique Schmaiske may be followed by visiting this link. The new roadmap is also accessible from this page.
Meteor Cloud Upgrades ☁️
Meteor Cloud features have been improved, including support for IPv6 across all regions, memory size settings for Push-to-Deploy, a new Git provider for Push-to-Deploy, and improvements to the log tab and UI/UX.
Let’s start with the improvements for IPv6. Meteor Cloud now lets customers on the Professional plan in ALL regions use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses in their apps. As a reminder, if customers enable IPv6 in their apps, they can run them in dual-stack mode and accept both IPv4 and IPv6 client connections.
After that, we have two Push-to-Deploy changes. Push-to-deploy machine memory limitations have been raised from 6GB to 14GB! Due of this significant improvement, you will be able to create MeteorJS applications more quickly and with more flexibility. Learn more here.
Another change for Push-to-Deploy is the addition of a new Git service, Gitlab! Our current integration supports GitHub, Bitbucket, and, now, Gitlab. This functionality is available in the following Meteor versions: 1.12.2, 2.0.1, 2.1.2, 2.2.4, 2.3.7, and any version between 2.4.1 and the most current. Find out more here.
Following feedback from our customers, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve made noticeable modifications to the Logs page. Some of the changes include:
- View older is now available when you filter by date
- Activity notifications have been removed from the logs page
- Option to select from 1 to 7 days to download your logs
If you’d like to learn more about this in detail, view our Meteor Cloud changelogs here.
The UX/UI has been improved further in the most recent Meteor Cloud update for a better overall experience. In addition to the enhanced look of the colors and fonts, the interface is now easier to use overall. You will like how easy it is to explore and use Meteor Cloud, regardless of your experience level or where you are starting from. Keep checking back for further UX/UI improvements. View the detailed changelog here.
Miscellaneous 💡
How to Find a Technical Cofounder
One of the most painful problems early-stage startups face is finding a technical cofounder. Without one, building and launching a product can take longer and use more resources.
Even if you‘re a developer, you may find it beneficial and more convenient to find another technical cofounder to join you so you can build out an MVP much faster. But how do you go about finding one?
In this article by Kevin Tayong, you’ll learn how to find a technical cofounder when you don’t know where to start.
Meteor Hackathon 2022: Third-Place Winners
For the 2022 Meteor Hackathon, the 3 person De-Central Budapest team created “the eBay of altruism.”
Can we use a decentralized, open-source platform to conquer global scarcity and boost sustainability? That’s what Team De-Central Budapest ventured to find out.
They think that society can’t go on if people keep wasting resources and using up too much of the planet’s resources. Learn more and discover why their excellent app, alTRUE took third place.
Meteor.JS and Meteor-Up MongoDB Migration to a New Major Version
Jan Küster had some difficulties with some of their instances, which were running their own MongoDB at 3.4.2, in order to update them to a current Meteor version. This article is essentially a summary of how he addressed the problem and how others might do the same. You can read the entire post here.
Coming Soon ⏳
Thanks again to everyone who has assisted Meteor and raised awareness about it. The most important February events and activities have been covered. Check back in the next part for a March summary.
Meteor 3.0
As a friendly reminder, we are working hard to complete the alpha release of Meteor 3.0 before the end of the month of March.
You may remain up to date by following our Github page or by monitoring our forums. Both of these options are available to you.
The Developer’s Conference 2023
During this year’s The Developer’s Conference, our very own CEO, Frederico Arantes, will deliver a presentation in Portuguese!
Tune in at 7:05 PM GMT-3 on Friday, March 24, to hear him talk about productivity when it comes to creating and deploying Node.js apps.
Using Meteor.js, you can make web apps with JavaScript and TypeScript much more quickly and easily. Sign up for the talk here.
MeteorJS Conference in Europe
Meteor Community Packages intends to conduct a MeteorJS conference in Prague, Czechia, in mid-June. It would be a two-day conference on Thursday and Friday.
The goal is to bring Meteor developers together to meet, learn new things, and assist one another in upgrading to the current Meteor version (which will be Meteor 3 at that time).
The emphasis is on helping existing users get up to speed with the newest Meteor and on helping new Meteor users learn more about it and understand how the more advanced users do things.
Get up to date on this event by following Jan Dvorak’s post.
We hope you enjoyed reading this month’s Meteor Monthly Update and hope to see you again soon. If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints, please leave them in the comments area. Until next time! 👋
