Meteor and React for Realtime Apps

Etra I. Y. D. S.

The course is slightly outdated. Several methods used are deprecated, as well as some libraries. It is advisable to update it since 7 years have passed since its last update.

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Tiaolian

Many of the software packages covered in the course have been discontinued, which can make learning difficult and require more time to find the material. Hope it can be updated, thank you.

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Michael K.

IMPRESSIVE EXCELLENT explanations about Meteor and React. I have viewed over 100 tutorials past year or so. This one is in the top ten for me. Many lights came on for me especially regarding React. Also very impressed with Meteor. I loaded up a Meteor app from another tutorial seven years old and the app ran perfectly.

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Nishith P.

React part wasn't detailed. Meteor was good. Many issues due to course being old & therefore most the things don't work with newer versions of libraries.

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Jürgen K.

The complete course is well structured with very good code examples.
The only thing is, questions are rarely answered.
Nevertheless it is a 5 star course.

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Basel J.

clear voice, short and clear and good lessons
I hope the teacher updates the lessons because some information is not working after updates of react js.

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Jonathan A.

Overall great course that covers the fundamentals of Meteor and React and got me well on my way to creating my own applications. Sadly, about 20% of the code and packages are outdated as of 2019 so I had to do a bit of searching through documentation to try and figure out how to get things working before proceeding on a few of the videos. Overall very happy though! Thanks!

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Jake G.

This was a fantastic course- Stephen does a great job communicating relevant items regarding Meteor & React.

Unfortunately the curriculum is slightly outdated. While I was able to up to roughly 80% through doing (few) modifications to Stephen's code, I really had to back out when we reached React Router. It appears (which Stephen does allude too generally) the React Router v3 to v4 upgrade had considerable changes.

When trying to bring some elements from React Router into this curriculum I ran into a roadblock significant enough to disconnect me from the course. That being said, I'm absolutely not well versed in JavaScript or React, therefore someone with more experience learning specifically about interfacing with Meteor may have more luck.

Meteor does have further support for React which, thankfully, I learned some from Meteor's docs, giving me perhaps a slight advantage on building an app from Step 1.

Without a doubt would be 5 stars if this course was updated!

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Roman G.

Got into Meteor a while ago and let it slide again. Even back in it's early days people where very excited about combining Meteor with React. Never quite understood why as Blaze, the onboard template engine, works just fine. This course gave me some ideas on why it might be a good idea.

I like the example based approach. The course starts with a React only application using Meteor only as a development and server platform. This isn't a bad approach given that meteor could be used to turn a more or less pure React app into a mobile app.

The final example is a big one highlighting some of the strengths of Meteor. It starts with the integration of Blaze Templates into React which is indeed interesting. Data Publications and Subscriptions as well as Collection Methods are explained and a multi user system with sharing is added. Not bad for a course example.

Sadly the last example is out of date regarding the react-router package. A whole block of excercises (90 ~ 98 or so) is out of date and you need to dig into the Q&A to get it right. Luckily all seems to be there. There are also some deprication warnings. Check Q&A on those. Explainations are there.

For me the course was a little too slow. Videos are short and always start with "this is what we did last time" and end with "this is what we do next time". This starts to become really annoying as I know full well what I did 5 minutes ago and I really just want to get a larger chunk of the application done before moving on to another video.

Some videos are all about diagrams and explanations on how the dataflow works. Not too bad, but again I'd have preferred them to be pushed out of the way in one long video or being marked as skippable for those who get it.

What's hugely missing in this course is more about Meteor's abilities. Like how to build a mobile app. It's really simple but there's not even a mention of that ability. Also there's no explanation of Blaze and why React would be a better choice. Meteor packaging isn't mentioned either. Last but not least, no word about rolling out the application. How do I deploy it?

It's a great course to understand the mix of Meteor and React. To me it as the first contact with React. Not sure if I really want to use it yet but it's interesting to know about it's abilities. Meteor could have been handled in a bit more depth.

For those who'd like to get to grips with Meteor only it might not be the best choice. For React/Meteor it's obviously great and I'd recommend it. Since I learned quite a bit and am back in the Meteor boat after a long break I'm happy to reward 4 stars. What killed the 5th was the short video length, missing info on what's around Meteor and the slight out of date feel to it.

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Maximilian G.

speed of the course and visual explanations

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