smartgamer / awesome-meteor

A curated, community driven list of awesome Meteor packages, libraries, resources and shiny things

Awesome Meteor

A curated list of awesome Meteor Packages, libraries and software.

The official Meteor resources page can be found here

• Awesome Meteor
  • Getting Started
  • Collections
  • Forms and Templates
  • Users and Authentication
  • REST
  • Files
  • Routers
  • Debugging Tools
  • Editor Plugins
  • Search, sort and paginate
  • Mobile
  • Offline
  • Testing
  • SEO
  • Data Visualization
  • Analytics
  • Cron Jobs
  • Payments
  • Deployment
  • Front End Frameworks
  • Alternative Databases
  • Package managers
  • Internationalization
  • Scaffolding
  • Tooling
• Boilerplate
• Resources
  • Books
  • Courses
  • Tutorials
  • Blogs
  • Websites
  • Weekly
  • Twitter
  • Job Boards
• Contributing

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Getting Started

Where to start

• Official Meteor tutorial
• Discover Meteor Book
• Official Guide
• Why Meteor to begin with, and Meteor vs. the MEAN stack

Collections

Helpers and expensions for collections

• node-simple-schema - A JavaScript schema validation package that supports direct validation of MongoDB update modifier objects
• aldeed:collection2 - Automatic validation of insert and update operations on the client and server.
• dburles:collection-helpers – Transform your collections with helpers that you define.
• matb33:collection-hooks - Extends Mongo.Collection with before/after hooks for insert/update/remove/find/findOne.
• reywood:publish-composite - publish a set of related documents from various collections using a reactive join
• jagi:astronomy - The Model layer for Meteor

REST

REST support for Meteor

• simple:rest - automatically make your Meteor app accessible over HTTP and DDP alike.
• nimble:restivus - Make REST endpoints for your Meteor app with incredible ease.

Forms and Templates

Helpers for templates

• aldeed:autoform - UI components and helpers to easily create basic forms with automatic insert and update events, and automatic reactive validation.
• aldeed:template-extension - A Meteor package: Replace already defined templates, inherit helpers and events from other templates.
• kadira:blaze-layout - Layout Manager for Blaze (works well with Meteor FlowRouter)
• dispatch:scrollview - A high performance infinite scrollview for meteor
• themeteorites:blaze-magic-events - A new way of binding event handlers to html elements for Meteor's Blaze
• manuel:viewmodel - MVVM for Meteor
• webix:webix - Meteor.js - Webix UI integration
• uniforms - Bunch of React components and helpers to easily generate and validate forms. Seamlessly integrate with aldeed:simple-schema and simpl-schema.

Users and Authentication

Tools for handling users and authentication

• accounts-base - Meteor's user account system.
• alanning:roles - Roles support for the built-in accounts packages.

Payments

Tools for handling payments in Meteor

• Stripe - payment gateway for Stripe
• PayPal - payment gateway for PayPal
• BrainTree - payment gateway for BrainTree
• Instamojo - payment gateway for Instamojo

Deployment

Tools for deploying and maintaining Meteor apps

• When a Meteor finally hits production - Blog post about deploying Meteor apps
• BulletProof Meteor
• meteorhacks:kadira - Performance Monitoring for Meteor.
• meteor-up – Meteor Deployments.
• davidyaha:collection2-migrations - Auto DB migrations with collection2 and simple schema on Meteor
• percolate:migrations - Simple migration system for Meteor
• meteorhacks:fast-render - Render you app even before the DDP connection is live
• staringatlights:fast-render - An active fork of fast-render
• meteorhacks:cluster - Clustering solution for Meteor with load balancing and service discovery
• yogiben:admin - A complete admin dashboard solution
• demeteorizer - Converts a Meteor app into a "standard" Node.js application
• houston:admin - A zero-config, Django Admin-like admin for Meteor
• pm2-meteor - Simplest way to deploy, scale and run Meteor Apps with PM2.
• kschingiz:meteor-elastic-apm - Perfomance Monitoring for Meteor based on Elastic APM

Routers

Routers for Blaze

• iron:router - A client and server side router designed specifically for Meteor.
• kadira:flow-router - Client Side Router for Meteor.
• ostrio:flow-router-extra - Carefully extended flow-router package. Up-to-date version with support of latest Meteor's releases.
• meteorhacks:picker - Server Side Router for Meteor.
• msavin:parrot - Web router specially designed for building SPAs using Meteor

Offline

Tools for Meteor offline support

• ground:db - GroundDB is a thin layer providing Meteor offline database and methods.

Testing

Testing tools

• Meteor Testing Manual
• mike:mocha – Run mocha tests within the Meteor framework.
• xolvio:chimp - Testing so easy, a primate could do it! Supports mocha, Cucumber, jasmine, and chai.
• velocity:html-reporter - HTML reporter for Meteor velocity testing framework.
• Gagarin - Another testing framework for your meteor apps.

SEO

Search Engine Optimization tools

• ostrio:spiderable-middleware - Prerendering (a.k.a. Spiderable) with support of ES6 (ECMAScript2015) - Meteor app crawled perfectly by search engines.

Files

Handling files in Meteor

• Meteor-CollectionFS - Meteor webbased filesystem handling up and downloads.
• ostrio:files - Upload files via DDP, HTTP and WebRTC/DC. To Meteor server FS, AWS, GridFS, DropBox or Google Drive. Fast, secure and robust.
• netanelgilad:excel - Parsing and generating excel files (xlsx, xls).

Search, sort and paginate

Search, sort and paginate related tools

• tmeasday:publish-counts - Publish the count of a cursor, in real time.
• percolate:find-from-publication - Enable finding all documents that have been published by a given publication.
• meteorhacks:search-source - Reactive Data Source for Search
• matteodem:easy-search - Easy-to-use search with Blaze Components (+ Elastic Search Support)
• alethes:pages - Out of the box Meteor pagination
• Discover Meteor Blog about pagination

Mobile

Mobile Development

• meteoric:ionic - Ionic components for Meteor.
• driftyco:ionic - Official Ionic support for Meteor.
• raix:push - Push notifications for cordova (ios, android) browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox).
• martijnwalraven:meteor-ios - Integrates native iOS apps with the Meteor platform through DDP.
• delight-im/Android-DDP - DDP for clients on Android.
• okland:accounts-phone - A login service based on mobile phone number for Meteor.
• okland:camera-ui - Meteor package for taking photos with user interface, one function call on desktop and mobile. Allows to choose between camera to photoLibrary on mobile.
• percolatestudio/cordova-plugin-safe-reload - Cordova plugin to watch and recover after a broken Meteor Hot Code Push.

Data Visualization

Data Visualization in Meteor: charts, maps, tables, etc.

• AnyChart-Meteor - This package provides a simple way to use AnyChart JavaScript charting component in Meteor.
• aldeed:tabular - Reactive datatables for large or small datasets.
• luixal:blaze-paginated-custom-list - Reactive and paginated item list.
• luixal:meteor-apexcharts - Reactive ApexCharts library packaged for Meteor.

Analytics

Analytics

• okgrow:analytics - Google Analytics, Mixpanel, KISSmetrics (and more) integration for meteor.

Cron Jobs

Cron Jobs in Meteor

• percolate:synced-cron - Cron system for Meteor. It supports syncronizing jobs between multiple processes.
• vsivsi:job-collection - A persistent and reactive job queue for Meteor, supporting distributed workers that can run anywhere.
• ostrio:cron-jobs - Package with similar API to native setTimeout and setInterval methods, but synced between all running Meteor (NodeJS) instances.

Debugging Tools

Debugging Tools

• msavin:mongol - Visual Editing Tool for Meteor for MongoDB Collections.
• msavin:jetsetter - Visual Get/Set Tool for Meteor Session Variables.
• meteorhacks:kadira-debug - Full Stack Debugging Solution for Meteor.
• babrahams:constellation - An extensible dev console for Meteor.
• Meteor DDP Monitor - Chrome Dev tools extension for monitoring Meteor DDP traffic

Package Managers

Using package managers in Meteor

• meteorhacks:npm - Use Npm Modules with Your Meteor App.
• cosmos:browserify - Browserify npm modules for client side in Meteor packages.

Scaffolding

Scaffolding

• Meteor Kitchen - Code generator for Meteor
• iron-cli - A scaffolding command line tool for Meteor applications
• Differential - meteor-boilerplate
• meteoris2
• Base

Tooling

• ESLint-plugin-Meteor - ESLint plugin for Meteor

Boilerplate

• matteodem - meteor-boilerplate
• React with Webpack + Meteor as a backend

Open source apps

• Nosqlclient - MongoDB management tool
• VulcanJS - A toolkit to quickly build apps with React, GraphQL & Meteor
• Microscope - The Discover Meteor book's example app
• Wekan - Open source Trello-like kanban
• Reaction Commerce - Open source Commerce platform developed with Meteor
• Crowducate Platform - Open source education platform Powered by meteor
• Orion CMS
• Rocket.Chat

Front End Frameworks

Alternative Front End Frameworks to Blaze

• Blaze

• React - Working with React and Meteor

• Angular - Working with Angular and Meteor

• Angular 2 - Working with Angular 2 and Meteor

• Famo.us - Famo.us and Meteor

• Vue - Working with Vue and Meteor (plus single-file components & apollo support)

• frozeman:build-client - A tool to bundle the client part of a Meteor app.

• Asteroid - An alternative client for a Meteor backend

• ddp.js - Isomorphic JavaScript DDP client

Alternative Databases

Alternative Databases for MongoDB

• meteor-pg - New and improved PostgreSQL support for Meteor
• ostrio:neo4jdriver - Neo4j Driver for Meteor, with support of GrapheneDB
• numtel:pg - Reactive PostgreSQL for Meteor
• numtel:mysql - Reactive MySQL for Meteor
• simple:rethink - RethinkDB integration for Meteor

Resources

Where to discover new Meteor things.

Books

• Meteor Explained
• Meteor Tips
• Meteor Cookbook

Courses

• EventedMind
• Udemy — Meteor: Build a real-time web app using only JavaScript
• Udemy - A Beginner's Guide to the Meteor JavaScript Framework
• tuts+ - Single Page Web Apps with Meteor
• DevFreeCasts.org
• MeteorTuts

Tutorials

• Building a CMS-powered blog in Meteor
• scotch.io - Building a Slack Clone in Meteor
• Rocket-Chat Slack Clone
• Meteor Learning - List of resources to learn
• Phusion Passenger: Meteor tutorial

Blogs

• Official Meteor blog
• The Meteor podcast
• Blog about Optimistic UIs With Meteor Latency Compensation

Websites

• Official website
• Official Documentation
• Official Guide
• Atmosphere - The catalog of Meteor packages, resources and tools.
• BulletProof Meteor - Online course for Meteor performance in production, by Arunoda Susiripala
• Meteorpedia (infrequently updated)
• DiscoverMeteor Encyclopedia
• Roadmap
• Meetups
• Reddit
• YouTube videos from meetups around the world
• Unofficial Meteor FAQ
• The Meteor Chef

Q&A

• Stack Overflow
• Meteor forums
• Gitter IM channel
• The Meteor Chef Slack channel
• IRC - #meteor on freenode

Weekly

• Meteor-Blog
• Meteor Weekly
• This Week In Meteor

Twitter

• Official Meteor

Job Boards

• We Work Meteor

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome!

Thank you @gillesfabio for creating this repo!