Meteor Monthly Update — October 2022
Introduction
This blog post will look at some of October’s most recent Meteor updates and releases. Meteor 2.8 update, Meteor Impact, meetups, new Meteor material, and more!
We have a few exciting things planned for November, but first, let’s take a look back at October.
October 2022
Here’s a rundown of what happened in Meteor in October. We have worked hard to provide you with new Meteor features and updates. Let’s get started!
Meteor 2.8
The long-awaited Meteor 2.8 version is finally here!
You may use `meteor update — release 2.8` to update your app.
Meteor 2.8 has Node 14.21 upgrades, including security patches. Details, security notes, the new MongoDB Async API, the upgrade to MongoDB Driver 4.9, the inclusion of new skeletons for Solid and Chakra-UI, and the Meteor.callAsync function are all available.
If you want to learn all the technical details, read this blog post by Gabriel Grubba.
Meteor 101 Fundamentals: Section 3
Top-notch online education continues at Meteor University as we release Section 3 of our Meteor 101 Fundamentals course. This new component is about Meteor logins and accounts taught by Meteor evangelist and ambassador, Filipe Névola.
We appreciate your patience and really hope you like this new section. As usual, you have the opportunity to take an exam and get a certificate for Section 3 at the end. Don’t forget to inform your friends and coworkers that you are pursuing a career as a Meteor developer! 😉
Feel free to use our online university’s social section to ask your questions or provide feedback or you can always reach out to us on our forums and Slack.
Meteor Ambassadors & Meteor Impact
On October 13th and 14th, the Meteor Impact conference was held. It was jam-packed with keynote speakers, workshops, social activities, and a brand-new feature: a tradeshow!
Thank you very much to Jan Dvorak (aka Storyteller) for organizing the event.
If you want to see the video recordings, you can go here. Please remember that to see these recordings, you must first create an Impact account.
Lastly, our Meteor ambassadors also participated in the conference, and you can watch their presentations on the Impact page. Thanks to Medhi Mahmoudi, Jan Küster, Jan Dvorak, Kelly Copely, Dmitri Golev, Fabian Kromer, Filipe Névola, and Leonardo Venturini.
We look forward to seeing you again next year!
Miscellaneous
Coygo case study
Our newest case study is about Coygo, a collection of tools to help cryptocurrency and digital asset traders automate their trading process using high-frequency crypto trading bots. Learn more about them by clicking here.
Google OAuth using MeteorJS
Partha Roy, the Lead Product Engineer at Fasal, has created an implementation guide on using Meteor JS with Google OAuth! You can follow the tutorial here.
Meteor and React Native
Jan Küster has created a follow-up article from his Impact 2022 session. You can follow the whole workshop here to learn how to build a native mobile app using React Native and Meteor.
SEO beginners Guide for Meteor with React & Prerender
Another awesome article by Juan Pablo is about setting up your Meteor application’s SEO using React and Prerender. To read the detailed guide, click here.
How to optimize and scale Meteor projects?
Everyone finds app performance difficult. However, incorporating a few simple changes into your daily routine can significantly reduce such captiousness. Click here to read Marcin Szuster’s most recent article on how to improve things in this area.
Meteor Brazil meetup
Did you know we have a Meteor Brazil meetup group? The most recent event was held on October 20th and focused on Meteor and React Native. If you want to participate in the next events, you can sign up for free by clicking here.
Coming Soon ⏳
The important news and updates for the month of October end there. Keep checking back for updates as we have even higher aspirations for the month of November. Thank you to everyone who has supported Meteor up to this point!
Meteor 2.8.1 is In The Works
We’ve got good news! We’ve made some changes to MeteorJS that will help us get rid of fibers. We have put 2.8.1-beta.0 out there. You can look at the PR to see what’s new.
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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! 👋
