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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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Build a Chatbot with Facebook’s Messenger Platform

Summary


In this chapter, we started with the React DnD library by creating a sample app and exploring the minimum API needed to create a drag and drop interface for our Kanban app. Then we moved on to what we learned from it in the Kanban app. We also explored data handling by subscribing to a database collection and overviewed a few ways of loading the initial data from the server to the Redux store. During the development of the components, we also did a quick Modal app that we later imported into our project. Our final step was an overview of React's paradigm on code reusability, which we did by creating a Higher-Order Component. In the next chapter, we will add a full-text search feature in a Meteor application with MongoDB.