On: What's coming in Meteor 1.2, and beyond

[pmontra]

I did the design of a project that used Angular inside Ionic with Firebase as backend. They integrated well, no particular problem. Just be careful not to keep websockets open unless those you really need. Close the others. They'll keep the CPU busy and bleed the battery.

The only major problem was with Firebase itself, when we had to start duplicating data because it's a tree and it doesn't have joins. But it would be unfair to complain because it's like that by design and we knew what was expecting us. Is there any service like Firebase but with joins?

[rezistik → pmontra]

I really wish there was. I tried Firebase + Angular and liked it well enough, but I found the security rules kind of hard to grasp.

I've been using Meteor, and I like it quite a bit. There are a lot of things I wish were different but it's made me pretty productive.

I really wish it had Clojurescript integration for instance. But that's a really minor and personal thing I just want to use clojurescript.

I'd dig a Postgres as a service style firebase alternative that'd be nifty.

[pbowyer → pmontra]

I haven't used Firebase, but would RethinkDB with its real-time feature be an alternative that has joins? It has the drawback that it'd be self-hosted, but apart from that..?

[jkarneges → pbowyer]

There's also Compose.io for a hosted RethinkDB.