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Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework - Second Edition

Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework - Second Edition

By : Isaac Strack
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Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework - Second Edition

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By: Isaac Strack
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Overview of this book

This book is for developers or students who have a working knowledge of JavaScript and HTML, and want to learn how to quickly develop full-stack web applications using pure JavaScript.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework Second Edition
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Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework Second Edition
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Setup and Installation
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Setup and Installation
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Installing using curl
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Loading an example application
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Making code changes
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Summary
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Reactive Programming…It's Alive!
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Reactive Programming…It's Alive!
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Creating the Lending Library
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Creating a reaction
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Multiple clients
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Summary
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Why Meteor Rocks!
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Why Meteor Rocks!
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Modern web applications
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A giant Meteor appears!
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Let's create some templates
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Summary
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Templates
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Templates
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A new HTML template
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Gluing it all together
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Summary
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Data – Meteor Style!
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Data – Meteor Style!
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Document-oriented storage
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Broadcasting changes
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Configuring publishers
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Summary
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Application Structure – Client, Server, and Public (oh my!)
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Application Structure – Client, Server, and Public (oh my!)
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The client and server folders
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The security and accounts
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Customizing results
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Packaging and Deploying
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Packaging and Deploying
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Third-party packages
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Bundling your application
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Deploying your application to Meteor's servers
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Deploying your application to a custom server
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Index
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Index

A giant Meteor appears!

Meteor takes modern web apps to the next level. It enhances and builds upon the nested MVC design pattern by implementing three key features:

  • Data On The Wire through the Distributed Data Protocol (DDP)

  • Latency Compensation with Mini Databases

  • Full Stack Reactivity with Blaze and Tracker

Let's walk through these concepts to see why they're valuable, and then, we'll apply them to our Lending Library application.

Data On The Wire

The concept of Data On The Wire is very simple and in tune with the nested MVC pattern; instead of having a server process everything, render content, and then send HTML across the wire, why not just send the data across the wire and let the client decide what to do with it?

This concept is implemented in Meteor using the Distributed Data Protocol, or DDP. DDP has a JSON-based syntax and sends messages similar to the REST protocol. Additions, deletions, and changes are all sent across the wire and handled by the receiving service/client/device...

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