Reflect on Meteor

26 Oct 2017

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Introduction

Meteor, from my experience is very tricky and following along with the coursework tutorials, I thought to myself “There’s no way that I would be able to do this myself”. Then, when I was feeling bold, I attempted recreating one of my assignments in my Software Engineering class, it was called digits. I failed miserably, the only thing I truly know is the structure and importance of importing all your files in Meteor.

The Good

The way the file structure works is intuitive, you would have HTML files, and corresponding Javascript files for their actions. There would be an “index.js” file in each directory which would import the files into the main project.

The Bad

The syntax and learning what must be done in, especially for an event, and how to manipulate collections can sometimes be very easy; other times not so much. The running of meteor also slows down my computer quite a bit. I’ve had my laptop completely freeze in the middle of work, just because meteor is running in the background.

Conclusion

Like all things, meteor has some great things about it, and some not so great things. But, the more I practice and use it, I am sure the positives will definitely outshine the negatives.