In our industry, information rarely stays accurate for very long. With that in mind, it is as important to keep up with development news, as it is to learn a new framework.
Here are some of the people and places you should be keeping up with in order to stay up-to-date.
This one kind of goes without saying. Whenever something new is released, you can be sure to find the information you want on Meteor’s official site. Some more specific links are:
http://meteor.com: The official home page
http://docs.meteor.com: Meteor’s documentation
http://meteor.com/blog: This blog is a great resource for new info as well as upcoming news
And while you’re on the home page, be sure to sign up to their mailing list, as that will also inform you about what’s going on in the Meteor world.
If you use Twitter, then following the core developers can’t hurt. They not only talk about Meteor, but it’s a good way to find out what’s being worked on, as well as any Meteor events that might be taking place. Here are some useful Twitter handles:
@meteorjs
: The official twitter account for this framework@immir
: Geoff Schmidt@debergalis
: Matt DeBergalis@n1mmy
: Nick Martin@DavidLG
: David Greenspan@glasser
: David Glasser@khilands
: Kristy Hilands@qiqing
: Jade Wang@sixolet
: Naomi Seyfer
Next, I have some links of websites that showcase Meteor apps or packages which you can take inspiration from and learn:
https://atmosphere.meteor.com/: A list of unofficial Smart Packages
http://madewith.meteor.com/: A list of apps made with Meteor
https://github.com/meteor/meteor: The official Meteor GitHub page
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/meteor: This link contains some useful and practical questions
These are great resources for finding out what others are working on, as well as seeing how other people code with Meteor.
As complete as this list already is, I do have some personal blogs and links; these aren’t always about Meteor but they are worth checking out.
http://net.tutsplus.com: A site about web development, I personally wrote an article about Meteor here.
http://gabrielmanricks.com: A shameless plug for my own site.
http://tom.thesnail.org/: Tom Coleman’s blog, he is pretty active in the open source Meteor world, so a good blog to follow.
http://sachagreif.com/: Sacha Greif’s blog, another Meteor activist.
http://blogs.adobe.com/strack: Isaac Strack, Author of Getting Started with Meteor.js and a Meteor enthusiast.
And here are some corresponding Twitter accounts you can follow:
@nettuts
@GabrielManricks
@tmeasday
@SachaGreif
@istrack