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Mastering MeteorJS Application Development

By : Arturas Lebedevas, Jebin BV
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Mastering MeteorJS Application Development

By: Arturas Lebedevas, Jebin BV

Overview of this book

The web is dead – applications now rule our online experiences. But how are you going to build them? Well, if you’ve been paying attention, you might already have tried your hand with MeteorJS, the JavaScript framework that helps you build complete full-stack web applications that are responsive and fast with ease. Mastering MeteorJS Application Development shows you how to do even more with MeteorJS – if you’re ready to try a comprehensive course through one of the most exciting frameworks in web development today, this is the book you need. Designed to take you through the entire process of building an advanced multipage application with Meteor, you’ll be able to bring your web development ideas with surprising ease. You’ll not only learn how Meteor makes web development easier, but also how you can make using Meteor easier, by automating and simplifying tasks so you can be confident you have full control of everything in your workflow – especially everything that could go wrong. From automated testing to integrating other useful frameworks such as Angular and D3, each chapter covers a crucial element in the Meteor development process. Discover how to integrate animations using Meteor’s Blaze, to give your UI designs the edge, and explore reactive programming to effectively harness RESTful systems in your projects. You will also learn how to deploy and scale your application, two crucial aspects of modern development and vital in a changing digital environment with users expecting a product and experience that delivers. With further insights on developing for mobile – and how Meteor can help you tackle the challenges of the trend – and details on incorporating SEO strategies into your application, this book isn’t just a code tutorial – it’s about creating a product that users love.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering MeteorJS Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Developing and Testing an Advanced Application

The popularity of frameworks such as Ruby On Rails is because of two reasons. One is the ecosystem where one can find plugins and utilities to solve common problems and other is the scaffolding. MeteorJS has also earned countless contributors, which ultimately created a wonderful ecosystem. Also, as an added advantage, developers can use the Node.js ecosystem. Developers can find a lot of useful MeteorJS packages in the MeteorJS ecosystem, which is called atmosphere. Visit atmosphere (https://atmospherejs.com/) once and check the enormous amount of packages available for development.

Scaffolding enables anyone to kick-start a big application in minutes. Frameworks such as Ruby On Rails, YII, and Zend have mature scaffolding, which helps anyone with less knowledge about the framework to get started easily. Scaffolding reduces a lot of work and, therefore, developers can use their precious time in developing the application logic rather...