Discover
Can it be a Future CMS?
Hi! I'm Tim
Full Stack Developer
Interaction Designer
Studio Interact + Findwise
Gothenburg, Sweden
Traditional CMSs suck!
Difficult
Slow
Old
We need
a better
solution!
Fast
Fun
Modern
Users expect
apps!
Easy
Native
Mobile
APPS!
WE SHOULD BE BUILDING
Full stack, open source platform for building web and mobile apps in JavaScript
Build advanced apps quickly with a small team.
Browser
Refresh button
Links and forms
Individual sessions
Table stakes
Yesterday
Today
Mobile
Live updates
Native-style GUI
Multiuser collaboration
Updates without refreshing.
Real-time collaboration.
"We've bled all over it"
Brett Kiefer, Trello Tech Stack
Realtime database monitoring
Speculative client-side updates
Client-side data store
Custom data sync protocol
CLIENT
SERVER
TOOLING
Build & update system
The Old Way, a Complex Stack
HTML Templates
App Logic
Reactive UI update system
Native mobile container
Web
Mobile
App Components & Logic
App Microservices
Blaze
Angular
React
Client Data Cache
DDP
Livequery
CLIENT
SERVER
SOURCES
MongoDB
SQL
Focus on the app,
not the infrastructure
REST
DEMO
What we saw – Meteor tool
Install & deploy in minutes
Hot code push
Full-stack packages
Multi platform support
What we saw – Platform
Reactive rendering
Database sync
Minimal boilerplate
Intuitive, isomorphic API
Why JavaScript?
Versatile
ES2015
#1 on Github
Availability is winning
The next big CMS will be built using JavaScript.
Benefits
Content is king
Collaborative
Total control
Remote access
Easy to use
Pain points
Difficult
Experience required
Slow
Caching required
Old
Expect more app-features to come in the Future CMS.
Native
Interfaces
Collaborative editing.
Service endpoints
Streams
Resources
Data linking
Easy querying
More integrations
Login services
Document storages
File storages
Picture services
Media services
Existing projects
Universe
SpaceDrop
Orion
Orion
Universe
SpaceDrop
We want to
build apps,
not web pages.
The Future CMS
will be an
amazing app.
The End.
Discover Meteor. Can it be a Future CMS?
By Tim Brandin
Discover Meteor. Can it be a Future CMS?
Meteor is an open source platform for building web and mobile apps in JavaScript. This is the presentation on Meteor and my insights on the future of the CMS from the Future Of Web Apps in London in October 2015.
