Awesome Meteor

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

The official Meteor resources page can be found here

• Awesome Meteor
  • Getting Started
  • Collections
  • Forms and Templates
  • Users and Authentication
  • REST
  • Files
  • Routers
  • Debugging Tools
  • Editor Plugins
  • Search, sort and paginate
  • Mobile
  • Offline
  • Testing
  • SEO
  • Data Visualization
  • Analytics
  • Cron Jobs
  • Administration
  • Performance
  • Monitoring
  • Deployment
    • Docker Images
  • Front End Frameworks
  • Alternative Databases
  • Boilerplate
  • Open Source Apps
  • Internationalization
  • Scaffolding
  • Tooling
• Resources
  • Books
  • Courses
    • Free
    • Paid
  • Tutorials
  • Blogs
  • Websites
  • Twitter
  • Related
• Built With Meteor
• Contributing

Getting Started

Where to start

• Official Meteor tutorial
• Official Guide

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.

REST

REST support for Meteor

• simple:rest – automatically make your Meteor app accessible over HTTP and DDP alike.
• nimble: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.
• 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.

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.

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

Docker Images

• meteor-docker
• meteor-base
• docker-meteor

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.

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.

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.
• netanelgilad:excel – Parsing and generating excel files (xlsx, xls).

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

• meteoric:ionic – Ionic components for Meteor.
• driftyco:ionic – Official Ionic support for Meteor.
• raix:push – Push notifications for cordova (ios, android) browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox).
• 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.

• AnyChart-Meteor – This package provides a simple way to use AnyChart JavaScript charting component in Meteor.
• 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.

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.

Tooling

• ESLint-plugin-Meteor – ESLint plugin for Meteor.

Boilerplate

• 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.
• Crowducate Platform – Open source education platform Powered by Meteor.
• Nosqlclient – MongoDB management tool.

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

• Meteor Explained
• Secure Meteor
• meteor-tuts – Free
• Meteor Tips – Free
• Pro Meteor – Free
• Meteor Cookbook

Courses

• Free

  Most of these free courses are by Scott Tolinski, please make sure to check out some his paid stuff over at leveluptutorials

  • Meteor 1.4 For Everyone
  • Intermediate Meteor
  • Meteor For Everyone Tutorials
  • Meteor 1.4 + React For Everyone Tutorials
  • Meteor & React For Everyone
  • Level 2 Meteor + React Tutorials
  • User Accounts in Meteor
  • Full-stack GraphQL with Apollo, Meteor & React

• Paid

  • leveluptutorials – Contains some free tutorials.
  • EventedMind – Contains some free tutorials.
  • Udemy – Meteor and React for Realtime Apps
  • tuts+ – Single Page Web Apps with Meteor
  • BulletProof Meteor – Contains some free tutorials.

Tutorials

• Building a CMS-powered blog in Meteor
• scotch.io – Building a Slack Clone in Meteor
• Meteor Learning – List of resources to learn
• Phusion Passenger: Meteor tutorial
• When a Meteor finally hits production – Blog post about deploying Meteor apps
• Transform any Meteor App into a PWA

Blogs

• Official Meteor blog
• The Meteor podcast

Websites

• Official website
• Official Documentation
• Official Guide
• Atmosphere – The catalog of Meteor packages, resources and tools.
• Discover Meteor
• Meteorpedia (infrequently updated)
• Meetups
• Reddit
• YouTube videos from meetups around the world
• Unofficial Meteor FAQ
• The Meteor Chef

Q&A

• Stack Overflow
• Meteor forums
• Meteor Community Organization Slack Channel

Twitter

• Official Meteor

Related

• Awesome Ember Js
• Awesome Knockout Js
• Awesome Backbone

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