Development status Active | Written in JavaScript, C++, C | |
Developer(s) Meteor Development Group Initial release January 20, 2012; 5 years ago (2012-01-20) Stable release 1.4 / July 25, 2016; 7 months ago (2016-07-25) Repository github.com/meteor/meteor | ||
Meteor, or MeteorJS, is a free and open-source JavaScript web framework written using Node.js. Meteor allows for rapid prototyping and produces cross-platform (Android, iOS, Web) code. It integrates with MongoDB and uses the Distributed Data Protocol and a publish–subscribe pattern to automatically propagate data changes to clients without requiring the developer to write any synchronization code. On the client, Meteor depends on jQuery and can be used with any JavaScript UI widget library.
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Meteor is developed by the Meteor Development Group. The startup was incubated by Y Combinator and received $11.2M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz in July 2012. It plans to become profitable by developing a hosting environment for Meteor apps to sell to large organizations.
History
Meteor was first introduced in December 2011 under the name Skybreak.
In October 2014, Meteor Development Group acquired Y Combinator alum FathomDB, with the goal of expanding Meteor's database support.
In October 2015, Meteor Development Group announced Galaxy. A cloud platform for operating and managing Meteor applications.