meteorscreencasts
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9:43 · 50K views · May 21, 2012
The original 2012 screencast introducing Meteor, a JavaScript framework for building web apps quickly. It demonstrates realtime updates, latency compensation and low boilerplate.
HN remembers it as a great dev tool pitch, with commenters crediting it for showing optimistic UI and winning them over to Meteor.
3 comments from Hacker News
The original Meteor pitch was pretty great this video Got them an $11M Series A from a16z, which was big at the time. But who's in this video? Geoff and Matt?
At Meteor, we're building a complete open-source platform for easily building best-of-class, fast, web and mobile apps. If you've never heard about Meteor, check out the original screencast: this video (needless to say, lots have changed since then -- most notably a security model :) Meteor touches all parts of an application stack (client-side templating[1], live database updates[2], a websocket-based sync protocol[3], an "all you need" build tool[4] that can build mobile and web apps, an in-house "transparent reactive programming" library[5], a cloud hosting environment[6] built on Docker and Kubernetes, and the list goes on -- all with a very very strong emphasis on great developer experience). Learn more about Meteor's subprojects here: [LINK] . Most of these projects are current edge new technology -- we develop new systems when the existing open source ones aren't good enough (either because of how they're implemented or because we can supply a better developer experience) Moreover, almost all of our work is open source which means working here builds your GitHub profile -- always a good thing. Remote is OK. Learn more at [LINK] , or happy to answer questions at avital@meteor.com. [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK] [4] [LINK] [5] [LINK] [6] [LINK]
Latency compensation/optimistic UIs is one of the first things that clued me into why Meteor is so great back in 2012 when I watched the original screencast: this video The reason is actually a common theme throughout Meteor: boilerplate code, and somewhat relatedly "devops" type code, are taken care of by the platform so you get to focus on building your app. It's such a big focus of Meteor's design compared to every other platform, and it's what's kept me coming back for three years. In fact, it's surprising that so few other platforms have picked up on the fact that eradicating boilerplate is a feature, and they should compete on it. Maybe with more posts like this, they'll be inspired to head in that direction!