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@meteorjs

An open-source framework for building Web, Mobile, and Desktop applications ☄️

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14 years on X, 14 years of Meteor. And none of it would mean anything without this community. Thank you for building with us. Still open source. Still shipping. Still here☄️
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Did you know Meteor auto-publishes data you never explicitly defined? @HarryAdel2 breaks down the hidden publications baked into the framework: current user, login service config, autoupdate, and more. Check it out: harryadel.com/auto-publicati…
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Fred Maia
@fredmaiaarantes
Mar 20
In 2022 there were serious people arguing @meteorjs should maintain a forked Node.js just to keep Fibers alive. We went the other direction. Removed Fibers entirely. Full async/await. Shipped it in July 2024 as Meteor 3.0. 2,300 commits. 800+ changed files. The right call. blog.galaxycloud.app/meteorj…
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That's responsible open source maintenance. If you're on yuukan:streamy and upgrading to Meteor 3.x, this is your drop-in replacement. Same wire protocol, cleaner codebase. meteor add a4xrbj1:streamy Check the repo: github.com/a4xrbj1/streamy

GitHub - a4xrbj1/streamy: Use meteor underlying sockets for realtime communications

Use meteor underlying sockets for realtime communications - a4xrbj1/streamy

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What stood out: the v2.1.0 release wasn't just a compatibility patch. The author audited actual usage across four production apps before removing anything (broadcasts, direct messages, Accounts integration) leaving a focused ~250-line package with a single dependency.
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The Meteor community continues to show up. yuukan:streamy — one of the go-to packages for real-time server-to-client messaging over DDP — hadn't been updated for Meteor 3.x. So a community member (a4xrbj1) forked it, modernized it, and published a4xrbj1:streamy.
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Shoutout to @HarryAdel2 for migrating WeKan's full auth stack to Meteor 3.0: OIDC, Sandstorm, CAS, and LDAP all asyncified. Fibers out, native async/await in. He tells more about it here: harryadel.com/dev-diary-25/
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Fred Maia
@fredmaiaarantes
Mar 19
"Galaxy has made hosting @meteorjs apps effortless in so many ways. Spinning up containers, scaling, and SSL setup are all automated with very minimal configuration. It's like Amazon AWS, but no certificate required to understand it!" <3
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5 years. 30+ releases. A complete async rewrite. 4x faster builds. A new real-time engine in beta. Full history with context behind every decision: blog.galaxycloud.app/meteorj…

From HMR to Rspack and Change Streams: every MeteorJS release from 2.0 to 3.5 (2021–2026) - Galaxy...

Meteor shipped 30+ releases across 5 years, mass-migrated to async/await, replaced its bundler, and jumped from Node 12 to Node 22 (with 24 on the way). Here’s the complete version-by-version...

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Feb 2026 (v3.5-beta): Change Streams as an alternative to oplog tailing. 40% more connection scalability vs oplog. No OOM crashes under high load. Node 24 on deck. uWebSockets.js being discussed as opt-in DDP transport.
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"Meteor builds are slow" was a real complaint for years. v3.3 (Jun 2025): Babel replaced by SWC. ~60% faster builds. v3.4 (Jan 2026): Rspack arrives. 4x faster builds. 88% smaller bundles. Tree shaking — a first for Meteor.
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Nov 2024 (v3.1): Node 22, MongoDB driver v6, and Express v5: all in one release. The runtime stack caught up with the broader ecosystem in a single move.
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Jul 2024: Meteor 3.0 shipped. 2,300+ commits. 800+ changed files. 200+ PRs. Fibers — gone. Every server API became async-native. Express replaced Connect. Node jumped to 20.x. The biggest Meteor release in a decade.
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2023 was heads-down conversion: accounts, OAuth, email all went async. MongoDB 6.x support. React 18 skeletons. A migration warning tool (WARN_WHEN_USING_OLD_API) to help devs find what needed changing.
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Oct 2022 (v2.8): findOneAsync, insertAsync, updateAsync, Meteor.callAsync… The 2-year migration away from Fibers officially started here. Every sync API got an async counterpart. The clock was ticking.
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Feb 2022 (v2.6): the MongoDB driver jumped from v3 to v4. Real breaking changes — new connection options, deprecated APIs, oplog compatibility layer. The biggest infrastructure release of the 2.x era.
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2021: Meteor 2.0 kicked off the 2.x era with Hot Module Replacement and free Galaxy deploys. By end of year: Node 14, embedded MongoDB 4.4, passwordless auth, and Apple M1 support.
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Meteor shipped 30+ releases in 5 years. Node 12 to Node 22. Fibers removed. Babel to SWC to Rspack. Change Streams in beta. Here's everything that happened, version by version 🧵
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5 years of catch-up and we're still not tired 🤙 There's a lot of good stuff on the way. Stay tuned.
Heri
@Herii_G
Mar 18
Replying to @meteorjs
Y'all fell off hard... 5 years of playing catch-up smh
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Fred Maia
@fredmaiaarantes
Mar 18
Running a @meteorjs app usually means: - @CloudByGalaxy for hosting - Atlas (or something else) for MongoDB - Maybe a third thing for Redis 3 dashboards. 3 billing cycles. 3 places to look when something breaks. Most teams don't feel this cost until they're deep in it.
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