This is an amazing podcast with the CEO of Meteor Development Group, Geoff Schmidt. There is a lot discussed and you can get a great idea of what Geoff's vision for Meteor is. There is far too much to be summarized in the podcast. I highly recommend that you listen to this. It is long, but really worth it!

If you didn't get a chance to see the Crater Conf talks like a couple weeks ago, Josh Owens will be uploading them do his YouTube channel over the next couple of weeks. He has just release the first day of talks.

Talks include

• 5 Tips To Improve Your JavaScript, with ES6 by Derick Bailey
• NoSQL Injection in Modern Web Applications by Pete Corey
• Design for Reactive Interfaces by Dominic Nguyen
• Using React and CSS Modules to make super fancy reusable components by Ramsay Lanier

Configuring Webpack with Meteor is a chore, it's also not easy to do. Benoit Tremblay talks about his newly overhauled webpack package which is also compatible with Meteor 1.3. He also has a 7-day course to get up to speed with webpack in Meteor

Sacha outlines four techniques for loading data into React components, along with giving his opinions and comparing them each. I agree with the conclusion section, but it's worth weighing your options and depends on your use cases. If you are using React right now, and are unsure how best to load data into your components, please read this.

Devan gives his thoughts on how best to structure components in React. He gives some insights as to the direction mixins in the future, and how having a dumb container component can help delineate between logic and data fetching. This is a pretty neat concept and worth a look.

MiniMongo Explorer is a neat Chrome plugin that exposes data in MiniMongo in your developer tools.

Floyd shares his opinions on using Reactive-Var that alleviates intrusive UX when working with Meteor & React.

Even jQuery components has its vulnerabilities. Pete talks about bad it can be, and ways to fix those exploits.