[daxfohl]

No. Even pagination still requires 3rd-party plugins.

Last time I tried (granted about a year ago) none of the existing plugins were very good (the only reactive one added the new page's items to the table before removing the existing page's items maybe .5 sec later--horrible user experience).

Perhaps the plugins are better now, but still it seems like something so fundamental it should be in the core distro; the meteor team is punting if it isn't. I won't try it again until that is integrated into core, which at least as of a month or so ago, it's not.

[philippnagel]

I am actually quite a friend of the modular structure (Unix fan here).

The package manager is good and the packages itself are getting better and more usable all the time.

But one could definitely argue that things like routing should be part of the core. On the other hand Meteor could be getting pretty monolithic over time.

[rgoomar]

I personally don't see why pagination should be in core. That's not a necessary thing to have. I would rather have the core developers work on more important things like SQL support or performance optimizations rather than having to worry about a dynamic way to do pagination. There are 3rd party plugins for that reason, so you can still accomplish what you need to without needing everything in core.

Also... you may want to look at it again. A LOT has changed since last year.