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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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1
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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Deploying your application to a custom server

At the time of writing, deploying a Meteor application to either a hosting service or to your own personal machine is a pretty hefty task. There are versioning issues with deployment, and most hosting services are still in the early stages of supporting Meteor bundles.

That being said, Meteor is working on a really slick deployment service (nicknamed Galaxy), and we have a pretty great third-party plugin available with us called Meteor Up (MUP), which was developed by the incomparable Arunoda Susiripala at http://meteorhacks.com. Let's walk you through deploying our Meteor application to a custom server using MUP.

The server setup

The server from which you'll be hosting your application needs to have the latest stable version of Node.

To Install Node.js, go to http://nodejs.org/ and follow the instructions for either Linux or Mac OS X installation.

MUP will install the correct MongoDB version that we need on our remote server, so we don't need to...

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