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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

Overview of this book

HTML5 is everywhere. From PCs to tablets to smartphones and even TVs, the web is the most ubiquitous application platform and information medium bar. Its becoming a first class citizen in established operating systems such as Microsoft Windows 8 as well as the primary platform of new operating systems such as Google Chrome OS. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" contains over 100 recipes explaining how to utilize modern features and techniques when building websites or web applications. This book will help you to explore the full power of HTML5 - from number rounding to advanced graphics to real-time data binding. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" starts with the display of text and related data. Then you will be guided through graphs and animated visualizations followed by input and input controls. Data serialization, validation and communication with the server as well as modern frameworks with advanced features like automatic data binding and server communication will also be covered in detail.This book covers a fast track into new libraries and features that are part of HTML5!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Live HTML and user-specific data in Meteor.js


You may have noticed in the previous recipe that the data we used was global and not user-specific. In this recipe, we will see how we can create session data and take a deeper look into the templates as well as the data associated with them. In order to demonstrate this, we will create a small image-voting application, where the user will be prompted for the name, and after that they are given 50 points that they can spend for votes on the images.

Getting ready

To make the recipe simpler, we will serve the images statically from our public directory so you can download the sample images that are part of the example code or use your own ones.

How to do it...

  1. We start as any other normal Meteor application:

    >meteor create gallery
    
  2. Because we will use a little bit more code in this recipe, it makes sense to create a structure with a public folder for the static files, and the server and client folders for the server and client code respectively....