Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

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Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

By : Fabian Vogelsteller

Book Image

Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

By: Fabian Vogelsteller

Overview of this book

Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Meteor

Getting Started with Meteor

The full-stack framework of Meteor

Meteor's requirements

Installing Meteor

Creating our first app

Adding basic packages

Variable scopes

Meteor's folder conventions and loading order

Meteor's command-line tool

Building HTML Templates

Building HTML Templates

Writing templates in Meteor

Building the basic templates

Adding templates and partials

Displaying data with template helpers

Setting the data context for a template

"this" in template helpers and template callbacks

Spacebars syntax

Storing Data and Handling Collections

Storing Data and Handling Collections

Meteor and databases

Setting up a collection

Adding post examples

Querying a collection

Updating a collection

Database everywhere

Differences between client and server collections

Controlling the Data Flow

Controlling the Data Flow

Syncing data – the current Web versus the new Web

Removing the autopublish package

Publishing data

Publishing only parts of data

Publishing specific fields

Lazy loading posts

Switching subscriptions

Some notes on data publishing

Making Our App Versatile with Routing

Making Our App Versatile with Routing

Adding the iron:router package

Setting up the router

Switching to a layout template

Adding another route

Moving the posts subscription to the Home route

Setting up the post route

Changing the website's title

Keeping States with Sessions

Keeping States with Sessions

Meteor's session object

Using sessions in template helpers

Rerunning functions reactively

Using autorun in a template

The reactive session object

Users and Permissions

Users and Permissions

Meteor's accounts packages

Adding the accounts packages

Adding admin functionality to our templates

Creating the template to edit posts

Creating the admin user

Creating routes for the admin

Security with the Allow and Deny Rules

Security with the Allow and Deny Rules

Adding a function to generate slugs

Creating a new post

Restricting database updates

Adding a deny rule

Adding posts using a method call

Calling the method

Advanced Reactivity

Advanced Reactivity

Reactive programming

Building a simple reactive object

Creating an advanced timer object

Reactive computations

Deploying Our App

Deploying Our App

Deploying on meteor.com

Deploying on other servers

Building Our Own Package

Building Our Own Package

The structure of a package

Creating our own package

Releasing our package to the public

Testing in Meteor

Testing in Meteor

Testing packages

Testing our meteor app

Acceptance tests

Appendix

List of Meteor's command-line tool commands

The iron:router hooks

Index

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About the Author

Fabian Vogelsteller became interested in web technologies at the age of 14. He developed a skill set ranging from graphic design to coding PHP to Python, ActionScript, Objective C, HTML, and CSS, and fell in love with JavaScript. He has worked as a freelance web developer for over 14 years and is the creator of the open source feindura Flat File CMS. Fabian is a strong advocate of open source software and has built and contributed to many open source libraries and projects. In recent years, Meteor has become his passion and is his primary tool of choice. He currently works for start-ups in Berlin, extending his skills to web development for larger applications.