Developer(s) | Meteor Software |
---|---|
Initial release | January 20, 2012[1] |
Stable release | 2.13
[2]
/ 2 August 2023 |
Repository | Meteor Repository |
Written in | JavaScript |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | JavaScript framework |
License | MIT License. For dependencies: various including proprietary. |
Website |
www |
Meteor, or MeteorJS, is a partly proprietary, mostly free and open-source isomorphic JavaScript web framework [3] written using Node.js. Meteor allows for rapid prototyping and produces cross-platform ( Android, iOS, Web) code. The server-side MongoDB program is the only proprietary component of Meteor and is part of the Meteor download bundle. It is possible to use Meteor without using the server-side MongoDB. It uses the Distributed Data Protocol and a publish–subscribe pattern to automatically propagate data changes to clients without requiring the developer to write any synchronization code. On the client, Meteor can be used with any popular front-end JS framework, Vue, React, Svelte, Angular, or Bazel.
Meteor is developed by Meteor Software. The startup was incubated by Y Combinator [4] and received $11.2M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz in July 2012. [5] Meteor raised an additional $20M in Series B funding from Matrix Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Trinity Ventures. [6] It intends to become profitable by offering Galaxy, an enterprise-grade hosting environment for Meteor applications. [7]
Having been in development for about eight months, Meteor was initially released in December 2011 under the name Skybreak. [8] By April 2012, the framework was renamed Meteor and officially launched. [9] During the next few months, and with the help of large investments from Andreessen Horowitz and endorsements from high-profile figures in the startup world, [9] Meteor steadily increased its user base. It became more commonly used in production apps and websites.
Particularly after receiving large amounts of venture capital in its Series B funding round, Meteor acquired and integrated several other startups into its core product. Acquisitions have included FathomDB, a cloud database startup, [10] Galaxy, a cloud platform for operating and managing Meteor applications, [11] and Kadira, a performance monitoring solution. [12] Meteor has successfully monetized its userbase: In 2016, Meteor beat its own revenue goals by 30% by offering web hosting for Meteor apps through Galaxy. [13]
From 2016 the Meteor Development Group (the open source organisation powering Meteor) started working on a new backend layer based on GraphQL to gradually replace their pub/sub system, largely isolated in the whole node.js ecosystem: the Apollo framework.
In October 2019, the Meteor.js open source framework and Galaxy Hosting Products were purchased by Tiny Capital and renamed Meteor Software. [14]
Distributed Data Protocol (or DDP) is a client–server protocol for querying and updating a server-side database and for synchronizing such updates among clients. It uses the publish–subscribe messaging pattern. It was created for use by the Meteor JavaScript framework. [15] The DDP Specification is located on GitHub. [16]
{{
cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)
Developer(s) | Meteor Software |
---|---|
Initial release | January 20, 2012[1] |
Stable release | 2.13
[2]
/ 2 August 2023 |
Repository | Meteor Repository |
Written in | JavaScript |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | JavaScript framework |
License | MIT License. For dependencies: various including proprietary. |
Website |
www |
Meteor, or MeteorJS, is a partly proprietary, mostly free and open-source isomorphic JavaScript web framework [3] written using Node.js. Meteor allows for rapid prototyping and produces cross-platform ( Android, iOS, Web) code. The server-side MongoDB program is the only proprietary component of Meteor and is part of the Meteor download bundle. It is possible to use Meteor without using the server-side MongoDB. It uses the Distributed Data Protocol and a publish–subscribe pattern to automatically propagate data changes to clients without requiring the developer to write any synchronization code. On the client, Meteor can be used with any popular front-end JS framework, Vue, React, Svelte, Angular, or Bazel.
Meteor is developed by Meteor Software. The startup was incubated by Y Combinator [4] and received $11.2M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz in July 2012. [5] Meteor raised an additional $20M in Series B funding from Matrix Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Trinity Ventures. [6] It intends to become profitable by offering Galaxy, an enterprise-grade hosting environment for Meteor applications. [7]
Having been in development for about eight months, Meteor was initially released in December 2011 under the name Skybreak. [8] By April 2012, the framework was renamed Meteor and officially launched. [9] During the next few months, and with the help of large investments from Andreessen Horowitz and endorsements from high-profile figures in the startup world, [9] Meteor steadily increased its user base. It became more commonly used in production apps and websites.
Particularly after receiving large amounts of venture capital in its Series B funding round, Meteor acquired and integrated several other startups into its core product. Acquisitions have included FathomDB, a cloud database startup, [10] Galaxy, a cloud platform for operating and managing Meteor applications, [11] and Kadira, a performance monitoring solution. [12] Meteor has successfully monetized its userbase: In 2016, Meteor beat its own revenue goals by 30% by offering web hosting for Meteor apps through Galaxy. [13]
From 2016 the Meteor Development Group (the open source organisation powering Meteor) started working on a new backend layer based on GraphQL to gradually replace their pub/sub system, largely isolated in the whole node.js ecosystem: the Apollo framework.
In October 2019, the Meteor.js open source framework and Galaxy Hosting Products were purchased by Tiny Capital and renamed Meteor Software. [14]
Distributed Data Protocol (or DDP) is a client–server protocol for querying and updating a server-side database and for synchronizing such updates among clients. It uses the publish–subscribe messaging pattern. It was created for use by the Meteor JavaScript framework. [15] The DDP Specification is located on GitHub. [16]
{{
cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)