In this episode of the Meteor Monthly Wrap-Up, we dive into the two major releases in the past month: Meteor Cloud and Meteor 2.0. 

To kick it off, we discuss the specifics of Meteor Cloud and why we made the changes - which include:

• The thought behind  the  Meteor Cloud design, layout and  new UI
• The return of the free plan and who it's meant for
• What the new Enterprise plan is and what that includes
• Login/Sign-Up with GitHub

The important piece is to highlight the main reason for making these changes: the goal is to make the experience of using our different products (Galaxy Hosting, Meteor Cloud, and Atmosphere) integrated in an intuitive way for developers. 

The other major driver was  to make it easier for new Meteor developers to deploy their applications. Getting  your app in production is such a key component to seeing the power of Meteor; to bring more developers to the platform, it was important for us to improve the experience.  Enter the Free plan and the new shared MongoDB instance!

More information on Cloud can be found here. To get started with using Meteor Cloud for free,  visit our site. 

Next, we covered Meteor 2.0. Highlights include: 

• Hot Module Replacement (not just for React)
• cloud.meteor.com  is built on Meteor 2.0!
• Meteor Create

For more information on Meteor 2.0 and what's coming next, see our blog post. 

If you love Meteor and the updates we've made, spread the word!  Our community has been so great and we'll need your help to bring new developers building and deploying on with Meteor Cloud. 

As  always,  please reach out to us directly at podcast@meteor.com if you have any questions, feedback, or otherwise!