2015 was a big year for Meteor! In case you haven’t been keeping up on all the latest news, we’ve put together a brief list of some things you should be aware of going into 2016. We’re sure we missed a few, so feel free to add your own in the discussion section below this post.
The Meteor Platform
- Meteor 1.0.3.1 released, adding package summaries and scripting hooks
- Meteor 1.0.4 released, including Mongo 2.6 and 3.0, Cordova updates, and template subscriptions
- Meteor 1.1 released, now supporting Windows and MongoDB 3.0
- Meteor 1.2 released, bringing React and Angular Support, ECMAScript 2015, and Cordova improvements
- Meteor Galaxy was released, including professional and developer editions. See it in action »
- Meteor surpassed 30k stars on GitHub, surpassing Ruby on Rails and securing the title of the most starred web app framework on GitHub
- Angular-Meteor 1.2.0 released
- Meteor 1.3 early beta announced
Community and Events
- We held 21 DevShops in San Francisco, London, and New York — and you can watch all of them on YouTube
- We also added 60 cities and nearly 40,000 members to our global Meetup program
- Students from 15+ Universities participated in the Student Hackathon
- Rishi Goomar and Karl Danniger started contributing to Meteor Weekly, providing a weekly curated analysis for all things Meteor
- Over 1000 developers in 90 cities on 6 continents came together in one weekend for the Global Distributed Hackathon
- Josh Owens hosted a community-organized unconference in Tennessee called Meteor Space Camp
Learning Resources and Open-Source Projects
- The simple todos tutorial was refreshed for Meteor 1.2 and new versions were released for Angular and React view layers
- A new tutorial was released named “Build a WhatsApp clone with Meteor, Angular and Ionic”
- Coursera launched “Introduction to Meteor.js Development” in collaboration with the University of London and Dr. Matthew Yee King
- Stephan Hochhaus, Manuel Schoebel, and Manning Publications released Meteor in Action
- Work started on the Meteor Guide and an early version was launched
- Documentation was released for using React with Meteor
- Gravity released as an open-source social network
- LevelupTuts released a basic and advanced video tutorial series named Meteor for Everyone and Intermediate Meteor respectfully
- Rocket.Chat released as an open-source web chat platform
- Wekan released as an open-source Trello-like kanban.
- Dr. Mongo released as an open-source MongoDB admin app.
- Arunoda released a GraphQL package
- The folks at OK GROW! released REST2DDP, converting REST APIs to DDP Subscriptions
- Ryan Glover at The Meteor Chef published 17 Recipes and 43 snippets
- Discover Meteor published a blog series named “From Blaze to React”
Company
- Meteor secured $20M in Series B funding
- Meteor acquired Percolate Studios, and now provides paid developer support subscriptions
- Leading analyst firm Gartner recognized Meteor as a Cool Vendor
- Meteor CEO and Co-founder Geoff Schmidt delivered the JavaScript State of the Union, earning over 40k views on YouTube
- An Official Partner Program launches, and there are now 68 publicly listed professional partners ready to help with Meteor projects
- Meteor sponsored The Meteor Web Development Scholarship Program For Girls Who Want To Learn How To Code At The Flatiron School, which starts in February 2016
A Look Forward
At the last DevShop of 2015, Meteor CEO and Co-Founder Geoff Schmidt delivered his summary of the year as well as where Meteor is headed in 2016. Watch the whole video below:
Let us know in the discussion section below if you found this useful or if you have anything to share that wasn't in this list. Happy new year from all of us at Meteor Development Group!
