Chapter 1, Building a MeteorJS Web Application, provides an introduction to developing a Web application using MeteorJS. Readers will develop a multipage, multilayout application in this chapter, which gives enough insight about MeteorJS components and routes.

Chapter 2, Developing and Testing an Advanced Application, helps you rebuild the same application as in the previous chapter, but using a generator and other advanced packages to ensure the app is of good quality. Every possible way of debugging the entire application and testing the code is discussed in this chapter.

Chapter 3, Developing Reusable Packages, shows that packages are very important blocks for any MeteorJS app. This chapter shows the reader, with a typical example, how to develop and test custom packages and also provides the steps to distribute them for community use.

Chapter 4, Integrating Your Favorite Frameworks, guides the readers to use Angular.js and React.js with MeteorJS. MeteorJS has its own view layer managed by Blaze. However, many developers want to use their favorite frontend framework instead of Blaze. How powerfully d3.js can be used with MeteorJS is demonstrated with examples in this chapter.

Chapter 5, Captivating Your Users with Animation, shows how animations improve the user experience to a great extent. With all the in-built reactivity of MeteorJS views, many developers struggle to find ways to incorporate animations. This chapter walks you through creating soothing animations with a lot of examples.

Chapter 6, Reactive Systems and REST-Based Systems, helps us understand the reactivity of MeteorJS to its depths and the precautions needed to handle reactivity. Also, this chapter discusses how to use MeteorJS as a REST-based system for consuming API.

Chapter 7, Deploying and Scaling MeteorJS Applications, teaches you to deploy, monitor, and scale MeteorJS applications, as MeteorJS is not so familiar in terms of deployment.

Chapter 8, Mobile Application Development, helps you understand that one of the most important features of MeteorJS is to write once and build for multiple platforms. Developers can write code that can be ported as a mobile application in MeteorJS. This chapter will guide you to develop an app for a mobile using MeteorJS.

Chapter 9, Best Practices, Patterns, and SEO, discusses various best practices to design, develop, and maintain MeteorJS applications, and also the best patterns to follow in order to organize the code and structure modules. This chapter also guides you to make the application search engine friendly to improve the sites ranking. With this chapter, readers will get to know where to find anything related to MeteorJS.

You will need the following things to understand the content of this book:

This book is for developers who want to develop MeteorJS applications in a mature and maintainable way. The readers are expected to know the basics of MeteorJS such as the core principles, templates, server and client code positioning, and basic directory structuring. A little knowledge about querying MongoDB will help very much to understand data fetching from MongoDB. It is assumed that the reader has developed small example applications with MeteorJS.

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Create the bookTravel directory in the client and add bookTravel.html."

A block of code is set as follows:

  data: function() {
    templateData = {
      _id: this.params._id,
      bus: BusServices.findOne({_id: this.params._id}),
      reservations: Reservations.find({bus: this.params._id}).fetch(),
      blockedSeats: BlockedSeats.find({bus: this.params._id}).fetch()
    };
    return templateData;
  }

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

Router.route("/book/:_id", {
  name: "book",
  layoutTemplate: "createTravelLayout",
  template: "bookTravel",
  waitOn: function () {
    Meteor.subscribe("BlockedSeats", this.params._id);
    Meteor.subscribe("Reservations", this.params._id);
  },

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

iron add velocity:html-reporter

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Click on the Cart division in the top-right."

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