Meteor

Meteor premieres new top of the line concepts in developing Web and mobile JS-centered applications.

It uses a solid JavaScript core, filled with lots of useful APIs that work the same on both the client and server side.

This means code is easier to write, takes much less, and uses the same functions and methods regardless if you're coding for Node.js, jQuery, or your browser.

Meteor can be used in building cloud-hosted services, browser games, classic jQuery-like websites, and about anything else you might think of.

It's easy to learn (presuming you already know JavaScript), very well documented, and has already amassed a large gathering in the JS community so you'll have who to ask for advice.

What is new in this release:

• Relaxing core package versions
• We've upgraded the version of MongoDB that ships in the dev bundle from version 2.6.7 to 3.2.6
• We've updated Node from version 0.10.46 to 4.4.7

What is new in version 1.3.4.1:

• ES2015 modules
• Built-in application testing
• New Cordova implementation

What is new in version 1.3.1:

• ES2015 modules
• Built-in application testing
• New Cordova implementation

What is new in version 1.2.1 / 1.3-beta.11:

• The Meteor command line tool now officially supports Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2012. It can run from PowerShell or Command Prompt.
• There is a native Windows installer that will be available for download from https://www.meteor.com/install starting with this release.
• In this release, Meteor on Windows supports all features available on Linux and Mac except building mobile apps with PhoneGap/Cordova.
• The meteor admin get-machine command now supports an additional architecture, os.windows.x86_32, which can be used to build binary packages for Windows.

What is new in version 1.2.1:

• The Meteor command line tool now officially supports Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2012. It can run from PowerShell or Command Prompt.
• There is a native Windows installer that will be available for download from https://www.meteor.com/install starting with this release.
• In this release, Meteor on Windows supports all features available on Linux and Mac except building mobile apps with PhoneGap/Cordova.
• The meteor admin get-machine command now supports an additional architecture, os.windows.x86_32, which can be used to build binary packages for Windows.

What is new in version 1.1.0.2:

• The Meteor command line tool now officially supports Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2012. It can run from PowerShell or Command Prompt.
• There is a native Windows installer that will be available for download from https://www.meteor.com/install starting with this release.
• In this release, Meteor on Windows supports all features available on Linux and Mac except building mobile apps with PhoneGap/Cordova.
• The meteor admin get-machine command now supports an additional architecture, os.windows.x86_32, which can be used to build binary packages for Windows.

What is new in version 1.0.3:

• Add the meteor admin get-machine command to make it easier to publish packages with binary dependencies for all architectures. meteor publish no longer publishes builds automatically if your package has binary NPM dependencies.
• New localmarket example, highlighting Meteor's support for mobile app development.
• Restyle the leaderboard example, and optimize it for both desktop and mobile.

What is new in version 0.9.4:

• New Features:
• The new Meteor debug command and --debug-port command line option to meteor run allow you to easily use node-inspector to debug your server-side code. Add a debugger statement to your code to create a breakpoint.
• Added new a meteor run --test command that runs Velocity tests in your app .
• Added new callbacks Accounts.onResetPasswordLink, Accounts.onEnrollmentLink, and Accounts.onEmailVerificationLink that make it easier to build custom user interfaces on top of the accounts system.

What is new in version 0.9.3:

• Better handling of pre-release versions (e.g. versions with -). Pre-release packages will now be included in an app if and only if there is no way to meet the app's constraints without using a pre-release package.
• Add Meteor admin set-unmigrated to allow maintainers to hide pre-0.9.0 packages in meteor search and meteor show. This will not stop users from continuing to use the package, but it helps prevent new users from finding old non-functional packages.
• Progress bars for time-intensive operations, like downloading large packages.
• The reactive-dict package now allows an optional name argument to enable data persistence during hot code push.

What is new in version 0.9.1.1:

• Fixed backwards compatibility for packages that had weak dependencies on packages renamed in 0.9.1 (`ui`, `deps`, `livedata`).
• Fixed error when using the `reactive-dict` package without the `mongo` package.

What is new in version 0.9.0:

• Meteor list now lists the packages your app is using, which was formerly the behavior of meteor list --using. To search for packages you are not currently using, use meteor search. The concept of an "internal" package (which did not show up in meteor list) no longer exists.
• To prepare a bundle created with meteor bundle for execution on a server, you now run npm install with no arguments instead of having to specify a few specific npm modules and their versions explicitly. See the README in the generated bundle for more details.
• All under_score-style package.js APIs (Package.on_use, api.add_files, etc) have been replaced with camelCase names (Package.onUse, api.addFiles, etc). The old names continue to work for now.
• There's a new archMatching option to Plugin.registerSourceHandler, which should be used by any plugin whose output is only for the client or only for the server (eg, CSS and HTML templating packages); this allows Meteor to avoid restarting the server when files processed by these plugins change.
• Updated OAuth url for login with Meetup.
• Allow minimongo changed callbacks to mutate their oldDocument argument.
• Fix upsert called from client with no callback.
• Avoid a few harmless exceptions in OplogObserveDriver.
• Refactor observe-sequence package.
• Fixed spiderable race condition.

What is new in version 0.8.1.3:

• Added `credentialSecret` argument to `Google.retrieveCredential`, which was forgotten in a previous release.
• Removed nonexistent `-a` and `-r` aliases for `--add` and `--remove` in `meteor help authorized`.
• Added missing `underscore` dependency in the `oauth-encryption` package.
• Fixed minification bug that caused some apps to fail to render in IE8.

What is new in version 0.8.1.2:

• Fixed memory leak (introduced in 0.8.1) by making sure to unregister sessions at the server when they are closed due to heartbeat timeout.
• Added `credentialSecret` argument to `Google.retrieveCredential`, `Facebook.retrieveCredential`, etc., which is needed to use them as of 0.8.1.
• Fixed 0.8.1 regression that broke apps using a `ROOT_URL` with a path prefix.

What is new in version 0.8.1.1:

• Fixed handling of malformed URLs when merging CSS files.
• Loosen the checks on the `options` argument to `Collection.find` to allow undefined values.

What is new in version 0.8.1:

• Don't include proprietary tar tags in bundle tarballs.
• Convert relative URLs to absolute URLs when merging CSS files.
• Renamed Oauth to OAuth. Oauth is now an alias for backwards compatibility.
• Added oauth-encryption package for encrypting sensitive account credentials in the database.
• A validate login hook can now override the exception thrown from beginPasswordExchange like it can for other login methods.
• Removed an expensive observe over all users in the accounts-base package.
• Don't dynamically insert <tbody> tags in reactive tables.
• DDP now has an implementation of bidirectional heartbeats which is consistent across SockJS and websocket transports. This enables connection keepalive and allows servers and clients to more consistently and efficiently detect disconnection.
• The DDP protocol version number has been incremented to "pre2" (adding randomSeed and heartbeats).
• The oplog observe driver handles errors communicating with MongoDB better and knows to re-poll all queries after a MongoDB failover.
• Fix bugs involving mutating DDP method arguments.

Requirements:

• JavaScript enabled on client side