We are heavilly in Meteor developement (javascript framework) developing a sample apps for testing how framework works in real business environments.

Modern developer is lost in myriads of technologies like jquery, bootstrap, backbone, handlebars, reactive single page applications, and so on. It was hard (for me) to adopt notepad style programming, when once we had gui visual development environment with integrated debugger. I don't know if this is a step forward or step backward. But mainstream goes this way so we dont have many options to choose.

So beside setting Meteor environment (linux platform) we try to create all the requirements for real business app. In business app we need a way to browse data (tables), enter data (forms) and link data. Ok we need also other facilities like reporting, charting and others, but for start we focus on browse, edit and link.

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