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Build Applications with Meteor

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Build Applications with Meteor

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 (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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About the Reviewer

Olivier Pons is a highly-skilled developer who's been building websites for many years. He's a teacher in France at the IUT (University of Sciences) in Aix-en-Provence, CESI (Centre d'Études Supérieures en Informatique), ISEN (Institut Supérieur de l’Électronique et du Numérique), G4 Marseille, and École d’Ingénieurs des Mines de Gardanne, where he teaches state-of-the-art web techniques: Django/Python, Node.js, Big Data / NoSQL, MVC fundamentals, PHP for experts, WordPress for experts, Symfony, jQuery, Apache, nginx and Apache advanced configuration, Linux basics, and advanced VIM techniques. He has already done some technical reviews, including the PacktLib books Learning ExtJS, Building Modern JavaScript Applications, jQuery hotshots, jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials, and Wordpress Complete, among others. In 2011, he left a full-time job as a Delphi developer and PHP expert to concentrate on his own company, HQF Development (http://hqf.fr). He currently runs a number of websites, including http://www.cogofly.com, http://www.krystallopolis.com, http://www.papdevis.fr, and http://olivierpons.fr, his own web development blog. He’s currently making a Unity mcq mobile application, which works along with a Django website.

He works as teacher, highly-skilled developer and project manager, and also helps big companies' CTOs make the best choices for their web projects.