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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

Deploying a MeteorJS application


Meteor Up and meteor-deployment-manager are a few noticeable deployment tools available for MeteorJS deployment. A common thing about both these tools is that all of them are NPM packages. We have to install them using NPM and run the appropriate commands in the terminal. Let's see them in detail.

Meteor Up

Meteor Up is a popular MeteorJS deployment tool. It only supports deployment for Debian/Ubuntu Linux flavors and Open Solaris target machines at the moment. Mup is a complete solution for MeteorJS application deployment. It builds the application more like what demeteorizer did using the meteor build command and also installs the platform-dependent packages such as Fibers before running the application in the target host.

You can install mup using the npm install -g mup command. There are two steps to complete the deployment using mup. One is to set up mup, and other is to deploy the application. To set up mup, use the mup setup command. It will create the...