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Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework

By : Isaac Strack
Book Image

Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework

By: Isaac Strack

Overview of this book

<p>Meteor is a brand new platform built entirely in JavaScript that allows you to build modern, dynamic web applications in the blink of an eye. With support for nearly every popular JavaScript framework (and more being added every day), Meteor provides you with the ability to quickly and easily develop sophisticated and stylish web applications.<br /><br />"Getting Started with Meteor" is an easy to follow, step-by-step approach to learning how to build modern web applications with Meteor. Through the development of a complete and ready-to-use application, you will experience exactly how easy and fast it can be to develop robust, flexible web applications, so you can build your own “killer” app in no time.<br /><br />"Getting Started with Meteor" will walk you step-by-step through all the major advantages that Meteor has to offer. You’ll be up and running in less than two minutes, and will develop an actual application you can use. As you move quickly through the exercises, you’ll be able to experience first-hand how easy it is to develop in Meteor, and will gain invaluable best practices you can apply immediately to your coding projects.<br /><br />You will learn about reactive programming and how Meteor takes advantage of the latest web technologies. You will gain a solid understanding of what&nbsp; the best design patterns are for developing web apps, and when to use them. You will learn how Meteor uses HTML templates and NoSQL (document-based) databases together to make coding applications simple and fun. Finally, you’ll gain best practices for security and performance, making your web applications fast, secure, and easy to use. If you want to build a web application but hate how difficult it seems to be, this book will show you the easy way to build and deploy modern web apps.<br /><br />This book will teach you everything you need to know to get up and running with Meteor, and start you on your way to becoming an expert web applications developer.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Customizing results


There is one more consideration we should make when it comes to security and usability of our app. What if we could enable multiple users to use the Lending Library, with each user only able to see the items that belong to them? If we did this, we could stop people from being able to see what kinds of things other people own, and at the same time we could allow each person to track their own stuff. We originally set out to just create an app for ourselves, but with a little tweaking, we can let anyone use it, and they'll think we're awesome and maybe buy us lunch!

Modifying Meteor.publish()

In preparation for multiple people using our application, we need to make sure that no one can see anyone else's stuff. This is done inside the Meteor.publish() declaration for Categories. Logically, if we limit the categories that can be seen by a user, that limitation will cascade to the visible items, because items are found inside categories.

Open LendLibServer.js, and modify the...