Field notes from working on production Meteor apps.
September 16, 2026 · InterstellarBits
Store SDK deadlines arrive on someone else's calendar, and the Cordova half of a Meteor app is usually the least-maintained part of it. How to audit a Meteor Cordova build, decide whether to keep hot code push, and plan an exit that does not strand your users.
Read moreSeptember 15, 2026 · InterstellarBits
A 90-second rebuild costs more than it looks like it does. How to measure where Meteor's build time actually goes, cut client bundle size with dynamic imports, and think clearly about the newer Vite-based client build before you adopt it.
Read moreSeptember 14, 2026 · InterstellarBits
Most Meteor teams debug production by reading logs and guessing. What to instrument instead — method and publication timing, observer counts, Mongo slow queries — what the async migration does to your stack traces and your APM, and how to get useful traces out of an app that has none.
Read moreSeptember 14, 2026 · InterstellarBits
Hosting posture decides how upgrades, scaling, and incidents feel for the next three years. What a Meteor bundle actually needs at runtime, what Galaxy does for you, what self-hosting costs, and how Meteor 3 changes the trade.
Read moreSeptember 14, 2026 · InterstellarBits
Auth is the piece of a Meteor app that most resists both upgrades and exits. What actually lives in the users collection, how resume tokens and DDP login differ from an HTTP session, and how to let a second app read the same logins without asking anyone to reset a password.
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