Foreword

In 2011, Geoff Schmidt, Nick Martin, and I started writing Meteor, a new JavaScript application platform. Our plan was to make it possible for any JavaScript developer to built great web and mobile apps with a mimimum of fuss and confusion.

JavaScript is a remarkable technology. From its humble beginnings as a scripting tool for browsers, it has become the programming language that runs everywhere: inside a browser, on a mobile device, and in the cloud. It is favored by both experts and beginners, an unusual combination for the software industry. But the JavaScript ecosystem is highly fragmented, and the teams who choose JavaScript have to assemble and maintain complete application stacks from scratch and spend far too much of their ...

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