We've nearly completed the Lending Library application, without having to worry much about how our data is being stored. Meteor's data caching and synching methodology is intentionally built to make that part of building the application as simple as possible so that, instead of spending a lot of time messing around with database connections, queries, and caching, you can concentrate on writing a great program.

However, we do want to go over the methodology, and we'll have to make sure we have a solid understanding of how Meteor handles data so that we can perform some common optimizations and build our applications even more quickly.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics: