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April 27, 2012
[Video] Servoy vs MeteorJS
In the past week, MeteorJS has generated a lot of buzz in the internetz. And for good reason: developing javascript applications is currently a painful process of determining what libraries and projects to use, getting them all to work together, working out debugging strategies, setting up code sharing with multiple developers, and finally building and deploying.
All of which has very little to do with actually writing your web application!
The holy grail of web application development is starting from a point where all the brute grunt work is already done for you so you can focus on just writing and deploying an application. Meteor makes a compelling case that they have figured this out.
Of course Servoy has been doing this for years. So I sat down today and replicated the Meteor demo video with Servoy. Many similarities and some slight differences which I discuss as I go through the same steps they do to build and deploy a complete application.
You can find the Meteor screencast I referenced here: http://www.meteor.com/screencast
To check Servoy out further, head on over to: http://www.servoy.com
| Posted by David Workman on April 27, 2012 at 07:27 PM in Video | Permalink
Comments
Will Meteor be trendy with the Web 2.0 crowd for 6 months and then disappear? We'll wait and see ...
Posted by: Alan Bourke | May 4, 2012 5:40:39 AM
With the bazillion JS stuff out there and Meteor only solving a very limited set of needs for the entrepreneur developer types and even less for the enterprise developer types I wouldn't put bets on it.
The concepts it is focusing -- easy of development to deployment cycle and automatic IO -- will definitely stick around.
Posted by: David Workman | May 5, 2012 10:02:09 PM