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Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second edition

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Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second edition

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
12
Popular Node.js Web Frameworks
Index

Meteor


Meteor is a simple and complete web framework with the goal of giving developers of any skillset the ability to build robust web applications in a fraction of the time. It features a handy CLI tool that you can use to scaffold new projects very quickly.

Meteor provides some core projects/libraries such as blaze, DDP, livequery, and so on with a unified build system. This simplifies the overall development process and yields an integrated developer experience. The overall architecture that the Meteor platform handles is shown as follows:

Meteor aims to build real-time applications by providing its two core features, the distributed data protocol on the server side and transparent reactive rendering on the client side. For more details, please visit: http://meteor.com/features.

Another notable feature of this framework is its extensive package system, named atmosphere, which has modules developed for most of the common application use cases.

It is quickly gaining traction and becoming increasingly...