Create a web app from scratch in under 5 minutes with Meteor and Mailgun

<p><pre><code> if(Meteor.isClient) { ... } if(Meteor.isServer) { ... } </code></pre> Does the Meteor compiler somehow split those code blocks into separate files, so that it only serves the client code to the browser?<p>If not, it seems like a pretty bad practice for delivering fast webapps.<p>Edit: In general, Meteor.isServer seems like a great way for developers to shoot themselves in the foot:<p><pre><code> Dev: Let me just add my $secret in the server-side block... Bad guy (viewing source): Oh, what have we here? Dev: PWNED :(</code></pre>

$ curl <a href="https://install.meteor.com" rel="nofollow">https://install.meteor.com</a> | sh<p>I really wish people would stop giving instructions like this. Despite all the focus on web security and sandboxing, we continue to instruct people to run arbitrary code on their user account.<p>People should at least give any shell script they download from the internet a cursory look to see if it's doing what it should be doing instead of blindly executing the response from an HTTP request.

I feel like there's a certain point where thoughtfulness trumps speed while building something.<p>Why is there such a desire to do X in N minutes? How can something unique and truly useful come from 5 shell commands?

"Type this code and run it".<p>Hey, I can teach you the theory of relativity in 30 seconds: type this "e=mc2".

Meteor sounded like a really good concept and I wanted to give it a decent shot. However I could not find a getting started project. The ones I found were very trivial and did not go much into details. I couldnt really find a lot of documentation about how to create an app which used 40-50% of the features which will be used by the majority of the crowd. But I will give it another shot and probably write a polls app (ala Django getting started) in meteor.

&#62; $ meteor add email<p>&#62; This package is automatically configured to send emails (up to 300 per day) through Mailgun<p>I'm not sure I like having 'email' linked to a specific service. But maybe that's the Meteor way?

I tried it, sent email to myself. Never received it. I typed everything correct except I replaced the email with my own email orionblastar@gmail.com there was no error messages as well.<p>Do I have to install things like sendmail to make it work? If so that needs to be in the documentation.<p>Yes I did the meteor add email part, I followed every step.

Just curious, how does Meteor deal with concurrency issues where multiple clients are making changes to the same objects? Does last update win? How does this get reflected back to the UI?<p>Brief example: A grocery list that both my wife and I are editing, deleting, adding, and re-arranging at the same time.

Why does HN <i>not</i> like MongoDB, but <i>does</i> like Meteor. Meteor uses MongoDB if you don't know.

Great tutorial! If only there was an easy way to store the entered addresses in a database? Maybe that could be done in the next 5 minutes? :) I've had a few projects which where basically nothing more than just what was in the article. Meteor's builtin deploy and free Mailgun will fit perfect for cases like that.

"French Meteor Evangelist" is one of the coolest titles I ever heard. Makes a great business card.

The great thing about Rails (and Django) was that it was born in the wild. It was built in the process of solving a real world problem, and generalized/abstracted from there. Meteor lacks that type of genesis, and I wonder if that's important.

Aren't we all scared that some time in the future from now, new kids will have new tools that will make programming a totally customizable and super-performing web application as trivial as for example dragging some component here and there, like for us has been working with new generation programming environments, compared to i.e. coding asm? This is a part of the hidden feeling I guess..<p>Also that then, our present efforts and knowledge will be culturally relevant but totally unnecessary for developing great new generation apps ?<p>But...... we have what we have now, and we still code because we like it NOW, so we should accept the passing of time (and all evolutions it will bring) and think that we are still doing what we enjoy doing and that we have the luck of making a life out of it, possibly :)<p>Only moment to be concerned about the future is when they'll invent a time machine..

Amazon SES is similarly easy, and it works with any language over SMTP

Good job to Vianney... our French Meteor Earlyvangelist!

two questions: is it easy to get started? is it easy to customize according to my needs in advanced later stages?

whats the difference between mailgun and sendgrid?

Great article from Vianney , easy to read, easy to understand

Anyone who says "5 minutes implementation" to me, get's a nice and sound "GO FUCK YOURSELF"<p>EDIT: Usually it's the business monkey, UX snake oil guys and product leeches that say "Hey, that will only take like 5 minutes, right?"