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Awesome Meteor

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

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Getting Started

Where to start

Collections

Helpers and expensions for collections

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.
cultofcoders:grapher - Grapher: Meteor Collection Joins + Reactive GraphQL like queries.
sakulstra:aggregate - Add proper aggregation support for Meteor.
quave:collections - Create collections in a standard way.

REST

REST support for Meteor

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

Forms and Templates

Helpers for templates

uniforms - Bunch of React components and helpers to easily generate and validate forms. Seamlessly integrate with simpl-schema.
aldeed:autoform - UI components and helpers to easily create basic forms with automatic insert and update events, and automatic reactive validation.
ostrio:templatehelpers - Utility helpers for your Blaze templates.
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)

Users and Authentication

Tools for handling users and authentication

accounts-js - A suite of packages aims to provide all the tools you need to build a flexible authentication and accounts management solution for your application.
alanning:roles - Roles support for the built-in accounts packages.
meteor-user-status - Keeps track of users and their meta data.
accounts-ui - Accounts UI for React in Meteor 1.3+.

Administration

Tools for administrating your Meteor apps

Meteor Candy - Fastest and easier way to add an admin panel to your app.
yogiben:admin - A complete admin dashboard solution.
houston:admin - A zero-config, Django Admin-like admin for Meteor.
zodern:pure-admin - An isolated, customizable admin panel for Meteor.

Monitoring

Tools for monitoring your Meteor apps

kschingiz:meteor-elastic-apm - Perfomance Monitoring for Meteor based on Elastic APM
monti-apm-agent - Performance Monitoring for Meteor
lmachens:kadira - Performance Monitoring for Meteor

Performance

Tools for speeding up your Meteor apps

cultofcoders:redis-oplog - Redis Oplog implementation to fully replace MongoDB Oplog in Meteor
staringatlights:fast-render - An active fork of fast-render
epotek:method-cache - Meteor method caching using DataLoader
maestroqadev:pub-sub-lite - Transform publications to be non-reactive.
artillery-engine-meteor - Artillery load testing for MeteorJS applications.

Deployment

Tools for deploying and maintaining Meteor apps

meteor-up – Meteor Deployments.
meteor-google-cloud - Automate Meteor deployments on Google Cloud App Engine Flexible
mup-aws-beanstalk - Deploy Meteor apps to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Meteor Up
meteor-azure - Automate Meteor deployments on Azure App Service
pm2-meteor - Simplest way to deploy, scale and run Meteor Apps with PM2.
meteor-hero - Deploy MeteorJS applications for free with one command utilizing Heroku's service.
meteor-kubernetes-guide - Deploy a Meteor app with Kubernetes.
meteorhacks:cluster - Clustering solution for Meteor with load balancing and service discovery
demeteorizer - Converts a Meteor app into a "standard" Node.js application
percolate:migrations - Simple migration system for Meteor
yamup - Deploy Meteor apps to your own Ubuntu server (EC2, ...) without dockers
waveshosting - Web application to manage meteor deployments.

Docker Images

Routers

Routers for Blaze

ostrio:flow-router-extra - Carefully extended flow-router package. Up-to-date version with support of latest Meteor's releases.
msavin:parrot - Web router specially designed for building SPAs using Meteor
meteorhacks:picker - Server Side Router for Meteor.
iron:router - A router that works on the server and the browser, designed specifically for Meteor.

Offline

Tools for Meteor offline support

ground:db - GroundDB is a thin layer providing Meteor offline database and methods.
npdev:collections - An easy way to create offline collections with SSR for Meteor
meteor-service-worker - Meteor specific service worker implementaion.
quave:pwa - A Meteor package that allows you to configure your PWA.

Testing

Testing tools

meteortesting:mocha - Mocha test driver package for Meteor.
lmieulet:meteor-coverage - Test coverage for Meteor.
hubroedu:mocha - Decaffed cultofcoders:mocha fork.
antwaremx:meteorman - Meteorman: A DDP Client with GUI to test Meteor methods and publications (like Postman).

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

ostrio:files - Upload files via DDP, HTTP and WebRTC/DC. To Meteor server FS, AWS, GridFS, DropBox or Google Drive. Fast, secure and robust.
@reactioncommerce/file-collections - Reaction FileCollections is a set of NPM packages that provide the ability to support file uploads, storage, and downloads in Node and Meteor apps, and in browser JavaScript.
netanelgilad:excel - Parsing and generating excel files (xlsx, xls).
mikkelking:slingshot - Upload files directly to AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage and others in meteor.

Search, sort and paginate

Search, sort and paginate related tools

percolate:find-from-publication - Enable finding all documents that have been published by a given publication.
meteor-publish-join - A performant NPM package for publishing non-reactive or aggregated values.
tmeasday:publish-counts - Publish the count of a cursor, in real time.
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.

Mobile

Mobile Development

meteor-react-native - Meteor client for React Native matching Meteor Spec.
meteor-push - Push notifications for cordova (ios, android) browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox).
quave:universal-links - A Meteor package that allows you to expose your native iOS settings to enable Universal Links.
meteoric:ionic - Ionic components for Meteor.
driftyco:ionic - Official Ionic support for Meteor.
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.

aldeed:tabular - Reactive datatables for large or small datasets.
aslagle:reactive-table - Reactive table for Meteor, using Blaze.
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.
quave:analytics - A Meteor package that allows you to send your page views and more to Google Analytics.

Cron Jobs

Cron Jobs in Meteor

msavin:sjobs - A Meteor-first jobs queue / task scheduler.
percolate:synced-cron - Cron system for Meteor. It supports syncronizing jobs between multiple processes.
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

meteor-devtools-evolved - A chrome extension.
msavin:mongol - Visual Editing Tool for Meteor for MongoDB Collections.
msavin:jetsetter - Visual Get/Set Tool for Meteor Session Variables.
babrahams:constellation - An extensible dev console for Meteor.

Editor Plugins

meteor-api - Meteor addons for Atom.
meteor-zsh - Completion for the meteor command.

Scaffolding

Scaffolding

Meteor Kitchen - Code generator for Meteor.
iron-cli - A scaffolding command line tool for Meteor applications.
maka-cli - Maka-CLI is a command line tool, which organizes a web application's file structure and automates everyday package installation tasks for various application frameworks.

Tooling

ESLint-plugin-Meteor - ESLint plugin for Meteor.

Boilerplate

CaptainN - meteor-react-starter - A starter project on Meteor with React.
Pup
matteodem - meteor-boilerplate
React with Webpack + Meteor as a backend

Open source apps

Rocket.Chat - Realtime chat application built with Meteor.
Wekan - Open source Trello-like kanban.
Unchained Shop - Open source Commerce platform developed with Meteor.
VulcanJS - A toolkit to quickly build apps with React, GraphQL & Meteor.
Nosqlclient - MongoDB management tool.
radgrad2 - Meteor based education management system.
coauthor - Coauthor supercollaboration/discussion forum.

Internationalization

Meteor-Internationalization - Super-Lightweight and fast i18n isomorphic driver for Meteor with support of placeholders.
meteor-accounts-t9n - Translations for meteor account's error messages.
meteor-universe-i18n - Internationalization package for React and Meteor.

Front End Frameworks

Alternative Front End Frameworks to Blaze

React - Working with React and Meteor.
Vue - Working with Vue and Meteor (plus single-file components & apollo support).
Svelte - Build cybernetically enhanced web apps with Meteor and Svelte.
Angular 2 - Working with Angular 2 and Meteor.
Angular - Working with Angular and Meteor.
Famo.us - Famo.us and Meteor.
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.
elm - elm as the view layer for a meteor based project.

Alternative Databases

Alternative Databases for MongoDB

vlasky:mysql - Reactive MySQL for Meteor
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
simple:rethink - RethinkDB integration for Meteor

Resources

Where to discover new Meteor things

Books

Courses

Free
- How to Create an App - Most updated.
- EventedMind - It's old but goes into detail regarding how Meteor internals.
Paid
- Udemy - Learn React and Meteor in 2021: Build a multiplayer game
- Udemy - Realtime Applications with Meteor and Vue - Course in Spanish.
- leveluptutorials - Contains some free tutorials but mostly on 1.x.

Tutorials

Phusion Passenger: Meteor tutorial
When a Meteor finally hits production - Blog post about deploying Meteor apps
Transform any Meteor App into a PWA

Blogs

Websites

Official website
Official Documentation
Official Guide
Atmosphere - The catalog of Meteor packages, resources and tools.
Packosphere - Alternative front-end for Meteor package system, built by Kelly Copley
Discover Meteor
Meteorpedia (infrequently updated)
Meetups
Reddit
YouTube videos from meetups around the world
Unofficial Meteor FAQ
The Meteor Chef

Q&A

Community Newsletters

Work Opportunities

Built With Meteor

Commercial Grade Applications Built With Meteor

Qualia - Real Estate Startup
Code Signal - Skills-based assessment platform
Pathable - Events managment suite
MaestroQA - Quality assurance software

Deprecated

This section is desginated for resources which are no longer compatible with the current version of Meteor

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome!

Thank you @gillesfabio for creating this repo!