Meteor Monthly Update — September 2022

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5 min readOct 7, 2022

Introduction

In this blog post, we will examine some of the most recent Meteor updates and releases from the month of September. Update to Meteor 2.8 beta.7, Hackathon results, Meteor Ambassador introductions, fresh Meteor material, and more!

We have a lot of wonderful things in store for us in October, but let’s take a moment to reflect on September.

September 2022

Here is a summary of what occurred in Meteor in September. We have put a lot of effort into bringing you new Meteor features and upgrades. Let’s begin!

Meteor 2.8 Beta.7

While Meteor 2.8 is nearly ready for release, it is now in b̵e̵t̵a̵ ̵7̵ rc.0. We assure you that the extra time spent waiting will be worthwhile.

You may use meteor update — release 2.8-rc.0 to update your app.

Here’s a list of some of the updates included in this version:

New Mongo Package Async API PR
Updated MongoDB driver to 4.8 PR
Updated MongoDB driver to 4.9 PR
Update Cordova Android to 10.1.2 PR
Upgrade Node to v14.20.0 PR
Docs improvements and bug fixes
Update skeletons
New Chakra-UI skeleton
SolidJS skeleton

The following link contains technical details about this version.

Hackathon Winners

The winners of our 2022 Meteor Hackathon deserve our hearty congratulations! This year, the goal was to build an app that was impactful. Ideas for improving society, protecting animals, and addressing climate change abounded during this year’s event.

For this competition, we awarded three teams with cash prizes totaling $3,500; first place received $2,000!

The top 3 winners are shown below, going from first to third place:

Fasalians
Sus GAWKY (also won Best Presentation)
De-central Budapest

Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel so you may be notified when we post the hackathon videos and workshops.

We appreciate your participation and look forward to seeing you all next year!

Get To Know Our Meteor Ambassadors

Did you get a chance to say hello to our Meteor ambassadors yet? You can now learn more about them!

We published some of the initial rounds of ambassadors’ profiles on our social media platforms. They include Leonardo Venturini, Jan Küster, Dvorák, Juan Pablo Meijia, Dmitry Golev, and Lindoélio Lázaro. Visit our Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter pages to read their bios.

Additionally registered to speak at Impact 2022 are Filipe Névola, Jan Dvorák, Jan Küster, and Medhi Mahmoudi. Don’t miss this chance to listen to them speak! For Impact, register here.

Miscellaneous

Productivity With the CHARM Stack

Gabriel Grubba, our open-source software engineer, will present and advocate for the CHARM stack he’s worked on that aims to streamline the development process. Click here to read the full blog post.

How to Update Your Meteor App

When your app uses an old version of Meteor, you need to know which version your project is running. Also, keep in mind the breaking changes and the steps for moving. In this blog post, Henrique Schmaiske will show you how to make updates to your Meteor app.

Apify Case Study

Apify, a web scraping and automation platform developed using Meteor, is the focus of our latest case study. It facilitates web-based data extraction, data processing, and process automation. You may read everything about them here.

ViteJS with Meteor

ViteJS is now compatible with Meteor. The purpose of ViteJS, a build tool, is to facilitate the creation of lightweight and efficient websites. If you’re interested in reading Guillaume Chau’s tutorial, click here.

Vue 3 with Meteor

Meteor is now compatible with Vue 3. Thanks to the latest update of vue-meteor-tracker, you can now use Meteor’s subscriptions, reactive data, and methods in your Vue 3 components. To learn more, please click here. Thanks for showing the way, Guillaume Chau!

Coming Soon ⏳

That’s about it for the significant news and updates for the month of September. Stay tuned for additional information as we have even greater plans for the month of October. Thank you to everyone who continues to support Meteor!

Meteor Impact Is Almost Here

The third annual Meteor Impact conference will take place this year on October 13th and 14th. In less than one week, we will be holding our annual community event.

Over 490 people attended last year’s Meteor Impact, and 40 speakers shared their expertise about Meteor. Community members from all across the world attended the two-day event.

Below are a few presentations from the Meteor core team:

To learn more or to register, please click here.

Section 3 of Meteor 101 Fundamentals Is Coming Next Week

The wait is almost finally over. We will be releasing Section 3 of the Meteor 101 Fundamentals course! Make sure to follow us on our social media accounts or subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated. Get ready to learn more about Meteor! 🌠

If you have any questions, feedback, or comments about our course, please contact marketing@meteor.com.

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! 👋