[webjprgm]

Was this already in progress or made in response to meteor (and firebase)?

I'm sure a lot of us could rip the real-time/live updating/auto-synchronizing (pick your term) engine out of our current web apps and package it up in a tiny framework without much effort.

[EButlerIV]

The idea came about a year and a half ago. We seriously started working on it, and committing to a public github repository, about six months ago. Meteor's release just changed our public announcement date from "sometime in the near future" to "Friday."