We’ve just released a new Meteor 1.3 beta, which combines the earlier modules and Cordova betas and now also includes a new version of the application testing changes that we’ve been working on.

Try the release by running meteor update --release 1.3-beta.12 in your app directory.

Please comment here if you have questions about how things are supposed to work. Open a GitHub issue about bugs that you find, or missing features that you need.

Modules

Meteor 1.3 gives apps full ES6 (ES2015) modules support and better NPM support. Apps and packages can now load NPM modules that are installed via npm install on client and on server. Amongst other benefits, modules let you control file load order in much more precise way than naming your files in special ways.

@benjamn wrote a great document explaining how to use modules in Meteor.

Also refer to the existing issue for the earlier 1.3 modules beta for more details.

Cordova

Meteor 1.3 upgrades the Cordova dependencies to their latest versions, now uses WKWebView on iOS for improved JavaScript performance by default, and includes completely rewritten plugins for iOS and Android that make file serving and hot code push much more reliable and performant.

For now, please refer to the existing issue for the earlier 1.3 Cordova beta for a more complete list of changes. The guide for 1.3 will include a section on mobile, so we’ll update this when we have something to share.

Testing