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Are you a developer in need of a robust, efficient way to develop code quickly? Then you need to take a look at the awesome Meteor.js productivity tools we have provided for you. At Livecoding.tv we believe that Meteor.js is a great JavaScript framework to learn thus we have compiled a list of some of the tools and libraries that have proven useful to Livecoding.tv streamers.

What is Meteor.js?

“Meteor is a full-stack JavaScript App Platform that assembles all the pieces you need to build modern web and mobile apps, with a single JavaScript codebase. The proponents of Meteor JaveScript Framework have seen potential in the integration of Meteor with Angular and React after they have experienced both Angular and React to be highly complementary especially JavaScript UI frameworks that can be used in conjunction with Meteor. Meteor automatically manages the data flow between cloud and client applications, as well as client UI state and rendering, regardless of which UI framework you use”. (Meteor website)

Meteor.js Productivity Tools, Plugins & Libraries

Here are the ten (10) best Meteor.js productivity tools, plugins, and libraries recommended by Livecoding.tv engineers:

Kadira

Kadira is a performance management platform for Meteor.js which offers lots of resourser to help a team to improve the performance of an app at any stage in its life cycle.

Meteor-velocity

This is a framework that provides a testing platform for meteor.

Gagarin

This is a mocha based testing framework that is designed to be used with Meteor.  It is capable of spawning multiple instances of your meteor application and run the tests. These tests are done both on the client and server side simultaneously in real time. It is especially handy when you need more refined control over processes in meteor and allows you to test fancy things such as how your app behaves when the server restarts.

Meteor tooltips

Meteor tooltips allows you to develop minimal, barebones and reactive tooltips for your Meteor applications. This allows you to forget about adding clunky Bootstrap packages that not only increase the size of your code but also fall short of expectations in some instances. Lookback: tooltips package provides tooltips for you “The Meteor Way”, allowing you to develop reactive, minimal and functional tooltips.

Cloud9

Cloud9 provides a platform for you to develop applications in the cloud. This provides several benefits to you as a developer, including convenient and cheap access to your files from various devices. Some of the features of cloud nine include code auto completion, file revision history, FTP mounts, keybindings, and browser testing among several other features.

Mongol

Mongol allows you to view and edit your client documents in the browser. This removes the need for you to enter the console in search of your documents. Moreover, Mongol is debugOnly package, meaning that it does not compile to your production build. It configures automatically thus facilitating a plug and play installation approach.

Meteor tools for Visual Studio

This integrates an awesome framework of meteor into the Visual Studio IDE. This therefore provides developers with a wide array of templates, debugging, Language Syntax Highlighting among several other amazing features. It also provides live page updates, latency compensation, hot code pushes, interoperability and smart packages to developers.

Meteor Kitchen

This is a code generator for Meteor.js. It allows you to build a complete meteor application by specifying the details in a simple JSON file. You simple need to specify the directory structure, layout, pages, menus, forms and data views.

Meteor toys

Meteor toys provide you with a large number of development tools that will help you to develop robust and complex meteor applications. They simplify tasks such as templating, notifications, email and throttling among several other amazing features.

Iron

This is a command line scaffolding tool for Meteor.js applications. It provides a way to automatically develop the project structure, the various files and boilerplate code.

There you have it, the top ten tools, frameworks and packages that engineers at Livecoding.com find useful for Meteor.js. However, by no means is the list exhaustive for the Meteor.js productivity tools. We would like to get feedback from you below. So you agree with the list of Meteor.js productivity tools? Your opinion is much appreciated.