What Makes MeteorJS A Fitting Choice To Develop Real-time Applications

Posted by Lucie Kruger
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May 3, 2016
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MeteorJS offers an ultimate open-source platform for developing Real-time mobile as well as web applications in pure JavaScript. It runs mobile apps on JavaScript via Node.JS. While on the server, it integrates with MongoDB. With the publish-subscribe pattern of distributed data protocol, it automatically propagates the data changes to the clients. Apart from this, it does not require any extra synchronization coding. On the client side, it completely depends on jQuery. Meteor uses multiple JavaScript UI widget library here.

It is one of the best choices for any mobile app development company or developers. Let's dive into detail about it.

MeteorJS is a Complete Pile

MeteorJS is a Complete Pile of JavaScript platform. It is enriched with a plethora of excellent features like automatic CSS, hot code reloads, reactive templates, JS minification on the production server. It automatically combines all the static files and minified for you in production. One does not require to specify CSS, JS or even HTML files. In fact, its client side technology is very useful for helpers and template. Its cloud platform galaxy is very powerful and assists in scaling, deploying and controlling clients application.

MeteorJS is elastic

MeteorJS easily accepts other technologies. The developers using it does not require a sound knowledge of other solutions. It helps to communicate between the database and app i.e. the client and server side. MeteorJS makes all the dependencies work smoothly. On top of this, it also handles frameworks like Backbone.js, Bootstrap, and jQuery.

Meteor is problem-solving

Meteor is great because it manages all the components so wisely that, if a developer updates anything in the database, the alternation will be visible to all the users. It has integrated live browser reloading and reactive front end. It automatically updates all the application changes and front-end elements across all the users simultaneously. Therefore, we can say, it incorporates push technologies that enable real-time updates from the server to the client.

Excellent technology used by Meteor

MeteorJS uses high technologies viz, JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, and Web Sockets. It also accepts other default languages like Jade or Blade. In fact, you can also write your own. Node.js is used for server delivering the content to the client. MongoDB also accompanies the platform on the server. It also helps in data maintenance. For real-time communication between the client and the server, it uses web sockets and Meteor’s DDP protocol. Although Web Socket is unsupportive, Meteor uses XHR with Socks.js.

Meteor Supportive Community

MeteorJS is supported by thriving community on GithHub. It is social media friendly and can be found on all the popular platforms like Facebook, Google+, Reddit, and Twitter. If anyone is facing issues in using it, you can log on to meteor forum to have a detailed discussion. The community is very friendly, and one can easily find solutions for their issues.

Wrapping up

So, these were some basic reasons of any mobile app developer to use MeteorJS for creating a mobile-friendly application. It has the wonderfully fun framework that can never stop you to entice you to dig more information about this platform. All the best. Happy Meteoring!

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