Since there is no equivalent of python numpy, pandas in javascript. Is there a way to use them with meteor. numpy will do the heavy engineering and scientific computations and meteor will do everything else that is required for an engineering/scientific web application.
Is this doable or just crazy thought.
Interesting question!
Yes it should be possible either with the truckload of npm modules out there, one might do scientific calculation, I know theres a couple with matlab & mathematica.
If you're used to numPy you could use could too! You have to build a custom package for meteor.
There is a good example of a meteor package using a NPM module at : https://github.com/avital/meteor-xml2js-npm-demo.
On good example is the python (the npm module) : https://npmjs.org/package/python. Which lets you run python code and let node talk to it. So you could do heavy computational stuff with numPy and have meteor run it/talk to/get the results as they are changing.
