Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

Meteor is one of the biggest full stack JavaScript frameworks on the web that allows you to build real-time web applications quickly and easily, and in pure JavaScript. It allows you to write code with the same API on both the server and the client, which keeps your code consistent and easy to maintain for everybody. Meteor is not just a framework; it comes with a full build process that takes care of everything, from development to production, with no need for configuration. You will never want to manually add files or write Grunt tasks for build optimizations again. This book takes you from the installation of Meteor to building a fully working web blog (including backend) to create and edit posts. Discover how simple it can be to build complex web applications in pure JavaScript without the hassle of manually updating DOM elements. You will start with the basic concepts and folder structure of a Meteor project, learning how Meteor templates work. You'll then learn how to retrieve and send data to the server and manipulate the database content. Routing will later make your example app look and behave like a real website, but being faster with the feel of a native application. Understand Meteor's reactivity concept that can re-run functions when data changes while you're building your own reactive object, and package it later for drop in-use. After your app is ready, the book continues with ways of deploying your app on different types of servers. Finally, we will take a look at testing packages and the application itself. This book gives you an overall look at what's possible with Meteor, while learning how to build and structure a pure JavaScript application.