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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

Summarizing the concepts


This section is just a recap of the important concepts and building blocks of MeteorJS. You are free to skip this section if you are familiar with all these items that are given in the following sections.

To start with, maybe you should look again at the principles of MeteorJS at http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/sevenprinciples. Based on these principles, MeteorJS employs certain libraries, protocols, concepts, algorithms, and tools to bring to you the awesome framework. Let's look at them.

Publishing/subscribing

The idea of publishing and subscribing is a significant concept to understand how to develop a typical MeteorJS application. It deceives to be as simple as it reads, but it is one of the toughest concepts of MeteorJS that many don't get right at the first glance.

We have seen and have extensively used publishing/subscribing in our applications in the previous chapters. We can publish a query to the clients from the server. The publication can be subscribed from...