talk-outline.md

Background

1. Telescope/Sidebar
2. Discover Meteor
3. React rewrite (Nova) + Xavier comes on board
4. Apollo rewrite (Vulcan)

What Is It?

A full-stack toolkit of components and packages that helps you quickly build web apps, both on the fƒront-end and back-end.

Show some projects:

1. Crater
2. Sidebar
3. Huttle
4. SmartHosts

Principles

1. No Dumb Work
2. Flexible (Extend, Don't Edit)
3. Eject Anytime

Technology

1. Front-End: React

2. Data Layer: GraphQL & Redux (Apollo)

3. Server & Build Tool: Meteor

4. The bridge between Meteor's ease of use and Apollo's flexibility

5. Package-based architecture

Movies Demo + Core Features

1. Schema
2. Data Layer (list pagination, load detailed views)
   • Show Redux/Apollo devtools
3. Forms

Posts Demo + Other Features

1. Posts & Comments
2. Categories
3. Newsletter

Code + Docs

1. Data layer HoCs
2. Components & theming
3. Fragments extension
4. Callback Hooks

Next Steps

1. Last 10%
2. Relaunch with clear messaging
3. Find more contributors! (you!)