Official Meteor NPM SDK

[jankapunkt]

This might be a crucial step in making Meteor becoming more integrated with the broader JS ecosystem.

Background

External clients can't connect to Meteor out-of-the box. Even if they implement the DDP protocol over Websockets, they still miss crucial functionality in order to support

• Pub/sub
• ObserveChanges
• Tracker and reactivity
• Accounts integration
• what else?

An official Meteor SDK might be a perfect solution here

What already exists?

• SimpleDDP is the de-facto implementation
• However not maintained since years
• maybe not feature complete, see the above
• Meteor-React-Native basically implements all the above (copied the code way back then from the Meteor repo)
• it also maintains an own Minimongo fork
• Lots of it's code could be removed if an official SDK would be there
• @Grubba27 already created a meteor-sdk package, which is simply a fork of simpleDDP in TypeScript

Why under the meteor org?

• "official" status, which might be important for developers from other communities to recognize it as the tool to use when connecting their software
• close to the core packages
• bundling development efforts