For the first Meteor.js meetup Vienna in 2020, Gerwin and Fabian prepared an overview of the last 3+ years all things Meteor.js in a nutshell.

6. State of the union
2020 edition
Meteor.js

7. 3+ years of Meteor.js in a nutshell
☹ 👍 🧨 📦 ⬆ 😱 🌅 🧐 🥳 🐎
brought to you by Gerwin & Fabian

8. Who we are
Gerwin Brunner
Studied SE at FH Joanneum
Using Meteor.js since 2015
Founder & CEO of Vilango GmbH
@gerwinbrunner
Fabian Kromer
Studied SE at TU Vienna
5+ years of Meteor.js experience
JavaScript developer for 8+ years
Founder & CEO of kromit GmbH
🐦@faburem

9. ☹ Arunoda left the Meteor community
https://forums.meteor.com/t/arunoda-leaving-the-meteor-community/31568

10. Why this is bad news
● No more Kadira performance monitoring
● Lots of unmaintained packages

11. 👍 Adoption of multiple frontend frameworks
https://twitter.com/donavon/status/1221846266826698759
● akryum:vue 🔗
● angular 🔗
● react 🔗
● svelte:compiler 🔗
$ meteor add

12. 🧨 Reduce bundle size using dynamic imports
https://blog.meteor.com/dynamic-imports-in-meteor-1-5-c6130419c3cd

13. 📦 Optimized bundles for modern and “legacy” browsers
https://blog.meteor.com/meteor-1-7-and-the-evergreen-dream-a8c1270b0901

14. ⬆ Support latest ecmascript features
● let
● const
● await
● class
● export/import
● ...
https://blog.meteor.com/get-started-with-es2015-es6-and-meteor-50186da21a4e

15. 😱 Tiny acquired Meteor from MDG
https://blog.meteor.com/a-new-chapter-for-meteor-7b684320be4c

16. 🌅 The rise of Graphql
MDG is focusing on Apollo now

17. 🧐 Out-of-the-box typescript support
https://forums.meteor.com/t/official-typescript-compiler-coming-to-meteor/49459

18. 🥳 Meteor 1.9 released

19. 🐎 Upgrade to Node.js 12
● Modern Node.js with Long Term Support
● Faster startup
● Better default heap limits
● Updated V8
● Native ES6 module support
● 32 bit Linux support dropped
https://docs.meteor.com/changelog.html#v1920200109

20. Q&A
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