Useful Packages

[SachaG]

Atmosphere is great, but it's also a little hard to navigate sometimes. So I've been keeping track of useful packages on the side as well.

Note that the end goal for this list is to eventually publish it as a free eBook to give away on the Discover Meteor blog. But until that happens, I suppose there's no harm in discussing it here :)

Models & Collections

• https://github.com/aldeed/meteor-simple-schema
• https://github.com/aldeed/meteor-collection2
• https://github.com/dburles/mongo-collection-instances
• https://github.com/dburles/meteor-collection-helpers
• https://github.com/matb33/meteor-collection-hooks
• https://github.com/jagi/meteor-astronomy
• https://github.com/richsilv/meteor-dumb-collections

Forms

• https://github.com/aldeed/meteor-autoform
• https://github.com/meteortemplates/forms

Files

• https://github.com/CollectionFS/Meteor-CollectionFS

Routing

• https://github.com/iron-meteor/iron-router
• https://github.com/meteorhacks/flow-router

Tables

• https://atmospherejs.com/aldeed/tabular
• https://atmospherejs.com/aslagle/reactive-table

Templates & Components

• https://github.com/peerlibrary/meteor-blaze-components
• http://viewmodel.meteor.com
• https://github.com/aldeed/meteor-template-extension
• https://github.com/meteor-space/ui
• https://github.com/themeteorites/blaze-magic-events/

Publications & Subscriptions

• https://github.com/meteorhacks/subs-manager
• https://atmospherejs.com/tmeasday/publish-counts
• https://github.com/meteorhacks/fast-render
• https://atmospherejs.com/peerlibrary/reactive-publish

Performance

• https://github.com/meteorhacks/meteor-down
• https://github.com/meteorhacks/cluster

Security

• https://github.com/meteorhacks/sikka
• https://github.com/matteodem/meteor-easy-security
• https://github.com/ongoworks/meteor-security
• https://github.com/alanning/meteor-roles

Accounts

• https://github.com/meteor-useraccounts/core

Other

• https://github.com/dandv/rate-limit
• https://github.com/percolatestudio/meteor-migrations
• https://github.com/percolatestudio/meteor-synced-cron
• https://github.com/bengott/meteor-avatar
• https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-user-status
• https://github.com/Meteor-Reaction/Herald
• https://github.com/cmather/meteor-handlebars-server
• https://github.com/alethes/meteor-pages
• https://github.com/matteodem/meteor-easy-search
• https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-autocomplete
• https://atmospherejs.com/anti/fake
• https://atmospherejs.com/manuelschoebel/ms-seo
• https://github.com/TAPevents/tap-i18n
• https://github.com/raix/Meteor-EventEmitter

Admin

• https://github.com/gterrono/houston
• https://github.com/yogiben/meteor-admin

[stubailo]

Dumb collections seems pretty awesome as an escape hatch to scaling - if you find that a subscription is being slow I wonder how hard it would be to swap it out with one of these.

CollectionFS - I've never used it, I understand it's basically the way to go when doing file upload in Meteor? Are there any good alternatives we should take a look at as well?

Subs manager - I wonder how well this works with template subscriptions, and whether it's crucial for us to include it in the guide.

ongoworks/security - I'm interested in using the Security.can approach to things. Should investigate further. Also Meteor.runRestricted looks interesting!

I'm just mentioning the ones where there might be interesting discussions; some of them are quite obvious, like tap:i18n.

[SachaG]

Re file upload, I feel like maybe things like http://cloudinary.com/ that store your file on S3 are better?

And I think Subs Manager is really necessary for almost any Meteor app. Otherwise having to wait for subscriptions on every route change kinda makes using a single-page app pointless…

[rhyslbw]

space:ui
It's worth mentioning that while space:ui (about to be renamed to space:flux) integrates with the view layer, I wouldn't categorise it under 'Templates & Components' as the goal is to better manage state using a Store and provide an event bus for components to announce changes in the view layer. The Store is a model of some concept in the UI and the API it exposes is then reusable across multiple components in the view.

CollectionFS
One caveat with the current implementation is that it limits the ability to run multiple instances of the app due to the use of observers for triggering cleanup and file maintenance tasks. I worked on addressing this, but it's quite a big change since we're pushing the work into a mongo queue, and given the size of the current install base it needs a lot of review.

vsivsi:job-collection should also be somewhere on this list @SachaG :-)

[lukejagodzinski]

I would add https://atmospherejs.com/peerlibrary/reactive-publish to the Publications & Subscriptions section.

[SachaG]

@jagi added :)

[mitar]

+1 for job-collection.

[EldritchInteractive]

Constellation should be added, as well as perhaps a separate section for development related packages.

https://atmospherejs.com/babrahams/constellation

[arunoda]

@stubailo SubsManager is pretty important in template level subs. And it works pretty well with it.
See: https://kadira.io/academy/meteor-routing-guide/content/subscriptions-and-data-management/using-subs-manager

[darko-mijic]

Flux architecture

https://github.com/worona/meteorflux/
Elegant solution for Flux architecture in Meteor, much simpler than space:flux

Reactive Dependency Injection

https://github.com/meteorflux/reactive-dependency/

[Pushplaybang]

+1 for job-collection, I'm surprised not to see the officially recommended React and Angular packages listed here.

[stubailo]

I think it wouldn't be useful to list all of the official packages on here - they are already quite popular and don't need the promotion!

[tmeasday]

I don't think the guide is the right place for this list of packages.

[mitar]

Wasn't that the whole promise of the guide? To embrace the community and point beginners to common packages?