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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

Animation using Snap.svg


In this section, we will see how to use the snap.svg library with MeteorJS. We are going to develop an interesting application in which we will use snap.svg to manipulate SVG. It will be helpful if we have knowledge about the SVG path and circle elements before starting this section.

To those who don't know about snap.svg, it is a SVG manipulation library. We could even say it is like jQuery but for SVG. We will discuss and learn to use the animation APIs provided by snap.svg. It is a great tool if we are using SVG for interfaces in the application.

The application we are going to develop is about logging our life events, similar to the Facebook timeline. To keep things simple and to concentrate more on the animation part, we will insert data directly to the database rather than developing interfaces to insert data. Anyway, MeteorJS will take care of reactivity and thus whatever we insert will be available on the screen. We are going to create some SVG interfaces to...