Chris Rooney

https://blog.meteor.com/meteor-1-8-erases-the-debts-of-1-7-77af4c931fe3 See "Dependency Upgrades".

Update: I've build the demo and it doesn't seem to work there either.

Sorry to pester, but have you have chance to take a look? Is it something I'm doing wrong at my end?

There's been no activity for a while. In the end I dropped Vega from my project. It seems more hastle than it's worth.