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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

Recreating the travel booking application


Create a new MeteorJS application using the iron create BookMyTravel2 command. Remove the autopublish and insecure packages using the iron remove <package name> command. Visit the directories and files created inside the BookMyTravel2 directory. As I said, iron-cli wraps the MeteorJS app inside itself and in this case, it is the app directory. The app directory is the actual MeteorJS app. If you want to run any MeteorJS-specific commands, you have to go into the app directory and run the commands. Both the mongo database and the .meteor directory reside inside the app directory. The unfortunate thing is that this scaffolding is tightly coupled to iron-router. We have to do some rework if we wish to use any other routing solution such as FlowRouter. However, this is not a big deal if you know what to change and where to change. For now, let' stay on track and build the application with iron-router itself.

Run the iron run command in the terminal...