Meteor in Action

Summary

Meteor in Action teaches you full-stack web development using the Meteor platform. It starts with an overview of a Meteor application, revealing the unique nature of Meteor’s end-to-end application model. Then you’ll dive into the Blaze templating engine, discover Meteor’s reactive data sources model, learn simple and advanced routing techniques, and practice managing users, permissions, and roles.

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About the Book

You might call Meteor a reactive, isomorphic, full-stack web development framework. Or, like most developers who have tried it, you might just call it awesome. Meteor is a JavaScript-based framework for both client and server web and mobile applications. Meteor applications react to changes in data instantly, so you get impossibly responsive user experiences, and the consistent build process, unified front- and back-end package system, and one-command deploys save you time at every step from design to release.

Meteor in Action teaches you full-stack web development with Meteor. It starts by revealing the unique nature of Meteo’s end-to-end application model. Through real-world scenarios, you’ll dive into the Blaze templating engine, discover Meteor’s reactive data sources model, learn routing techniques, and practice managing users, permissions, and roles. Finally, you’ll learn how to deploy Meteor on your server and scale efficiently.

What’s Inside

• Building your first real-time application
• Using MongoDB and other reactive data sources
• Creating applications with Iron Router
• Deploying and scaling your applications

About the Reader

Readers need to know the basics of JavaScript and understand general web application design.

About the Authors

Stephan Hochhaus and Manuel Schoebel are veteran web developers who have worked with Meteor since its infancy.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Look—a shooting star!
Chapter 1 A better way to build apps
Chapter 2 My fridge! A reactive game

Part 2 3, 2, 1—impact!
Chapter 3 Working with templates
Chapter 4 Working with data
Chapter 5 Fully reactive editing
Chapter 6 Users, authentications, and permissions
Chapter 7 Exchanging data
Chapter 8 Routing using Iron.Router
Chapter 9 The package system
Chapter 10 Advanced server methods

Part 3 Leaving the crater
Chapter 11 Building and debugging
Chapter 12 Going into production

Appendix A—Installing Meteor
Appendix B—The anatomy of MongoDB
Appendix C—Setting up nginx