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Build Applications with Meteor

Build Applications with Meteor

By : Dobrin Ganev
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Overview of this book

This book starts with the basic installation and overview of the main components in Meteor. You’ll get hands-on multiple versatile applications covering a wide range of topics from adding a front-end views with the hottest rendering technology React to implementing a microservices oriented architecture.All the code is written with ES6/7 which is the latest significantly improved JavaScript language. We’ll also look at real-time data streaming, server to server data exchange, responsive styles on the front-end, full-text search functionality, and integration of many third-party libraries and APIs using npm. By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills to quickly prototype and even launch your next app idea in a matter of days.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Foundation of Meteor
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Foundation of Meteor
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Setting up the development environment
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Building a Meteor app
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The frontend with React
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Summary
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Building a Shopping Cart
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Building a Shopping Cart
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Creating the project structure
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On the server
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Building the application components
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Adding router to the application
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Meteor methods
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Considerations for scalability
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Style Your React Components with Bootstrap and Material Design
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Style Your React Components with Bootstrap and Material Design
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Mobile first
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Modular CSS with LESS
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Modular CSS with Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets
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Bootstrap and Meteor
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Using CSS modules with Meteor
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Meteor and webpack styling the shopping cart
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Styling the shopping cart with Material Design Lite
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Real-Time Twitter Streaming
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Real-Time Twitter Streaming
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Twitter streaming
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Meteor with Redux
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Building the App
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Async actions in Redux
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Creating the App components
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Connecting the Redux store with the React components
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Developing Kanban Project Management Tool
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Developing Kanban Project Management Tool
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Drag and drop in React
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Building the App
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The reducer function
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Building the Modal
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Building a Real-Time Search Application
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Building a Real-Time Search Application
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Importing the data
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Index a text field
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Try it out!
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Building the app
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Real-Time Maps
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Real-Time Maps
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Building the App
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Build a Chatbot with Facebook’s Messenger Platform
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Build a Chatbot with Facebook’s Messenger Platform
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Building the app
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Build Internet of Things Platform
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Build Internet of Things Platform
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What is gRPC?
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Building the apps
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Twitter streaming

As per the writing of this chapter, there are 317 million monthly active users of the Twitter social service. More and more people are relying on social media services to obtain the latest news and opinions of other users. Twitter is a very friendly platform for developers; and with their APIs, you can access its core data via two main categories: REST and Streaming. What you can do with all that data is almost limitless. You can track and build an opinion analysis of a person, technology product, or a global issue. Politicians and celebrities are the heart of the Twitter platform, and news usually breaks on Twitter first and later on the other social media outlets.

Before you start hacking with the Streaming API, you need to provide Twitter with a few things:

  1. You need a Twitter account.
  2. You have to create an app and get access tokens.
  3. To connect to the service, you need four credentials: Consumer key, Consumer Secret, Access Token, and Access Token Secret.

After you create...

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