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Meteor Alternatives Per Feature

This table was created in 2015 so may be quite outdated today.

Feature Meteor Solution Alternative Solutions Description
Live DB Sync [livequery][lq] ([mongo-oplog]), [ddp] RethinkDB, Redis, ShareDB, [npm:mongo-oplog], [firebase], etc. Push DB updates to client/server.
Latency Compensation, Optimistic UI [minimongo][mm] [RethinkDB][lcr], [mWater/minimongo] (fork, not ws but http, browserify) Imitate successful db query on client before it is done.
Isomorphic Code [isobuild] & isopacks browserify Write one code for server/client/mobile.
Isomorphic Packaging [isobuild], atmosphere No more separate packages for server & client. Get bower + npm + mobile.
@omegahm
omegahm / create_labels.sh
Created April 7, 2015 19:00
Create Gtihub labels from Bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Colours picked from https://robinpowered.com/blog/best-practice-system-for-organizing-and-tagging-github-issues/
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# Label definitions
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declare -A LABELS
# Platform
@jakeyr
jakeyr / heroku.coffee
Created December 31, 2011 07:48
Heroku Hubot Script
# A limited way to interact with the Heroku API.
#
# INSTALLATION:
# 1. Create file in scripts folder in hubot folder
# 2. Update package.json for hubot and add dependency on "sprintf": "0.1.1"
# 3. Set heroku config variable HEROKU_USER to heroku user account to use
# 4. Set heroku config variable HEROKU_APIKEY to heroku user account apikey (from My Account page)
#
# heroku status - Retrieve the most recent tweet from the @herokustatus account
# heroku ps --app <appname> - Get process information for application
@zhengjia
zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=Navigating=
visit('/projects')
visit(post_comments_path(post))
=Clicking links and buttons=
click_link('id-of-link')
click_link('Link Text')
click_button('Save')
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
click('Button Value')