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Learn Meteor - Node.js and MongoDB JavaScript platform

Be ready for coding away next week using Meteor

Arnaud Weil

You know next to nothing about Meteor but need to start coding your next application within a week. Don't worry: this book has you covered.

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About the Book

You're a developer who knows nothing to Meteor. Which is fine, except that you need to start coding your next application using Meteor.

Don't worry: I have you covered. I've been training hundreds of developers like you during 15 years, and converted my experience into this book. I know from experience teaching what takes more time to learn in Meteor, and will spend time only where appropriate.

Plus this book is packed with exercises which build up into a full project: you develop a small e-commerce application. You’ll allow users to browse for products, add them to their basket, and you’ll also create a full back-end where the site administrators will be able to list, create, modify, and delete products.

Read this book, and you can code your Meteor application within a week. Or your money back.

Printed paperback version available here.

Note: this books is based on Meteor 1.3 and is currently being updated to Meteor 1.5.2.

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Arnaud Weil

Arnaud Weil is a born developer: when he was a kid he was controlling his electric train using an Atari ST and some self-made electronics, then as a teenager created and distributed worldwide one of the first Web browsers for some of the first pocket computers, when the Web was just beginning. In fact, he loves coding.

Turning a passion into a career, Arnaud has been coding all kinds of applications from factory tools to smartphone applications to house control solutions. His status as a freelancer allows him to help his clients with many different projects.

But what Arnaud enjoys most is helping other developers: that's why he teaches, speaks, and writes books.

Other books by Arnaud Weil.

Contents

Table of Contents

1.Introduction

  1. 1.1What this book is not
  2. 1.2Prerequisites
  3. 1.3How to read this book
  4. 1.4Tools you need
  5. 1.5Source code

2.Why Meteor ?

  1. 2.1How I felt in love with Meteor
  2. 2.2Why is Meteor so productive?
  3. 2.3Where is the catch?

3.Beginning with Meteor

  1. 3.1Setting up your development machine
  2. 3.2Creating a meteor application
  3. 3.3What are those files ?
  4. 3.4Meteor is listening to your code
  5. 3.5The HTML file
  6. 3.6It’s your turn to code: do-it-yourself
  7. 3.7Exercise - Create the application
  8. 3.8Exercise solution

4.Blaze, Spacebars and reactivity

  1. 4.1Spacebars
  2. 4.2Where does the data come from?
  3. 4.3Helpers
  4. 4.4Client and server code
  5. 4.5Organizing things
  6. 4.6Exercise - Display the current time
  7. 4.7Exercise solution
  8. 4.8Reactivity
  9. 4.9Available blocks
  10. 4.10Template events
  11. 4.11Data context
  12. I need you, super-hero !

5.Managing data from a MongoDB database

  1. 5.1What is MongoDB?
  2. 5.2Collections
  3. 5.3Exercise - Manually create a news collection in MongoDB
  4. 5.4Exercise solution
  5. 5.5Mongo.Collection
  6. 5.6Exercise: Display the news
  7. 5.7Exercise solution
  8. 5.8Query selectors
  9. 5.9Updating data with a Mongo.Collection
  10. 5.10Exercise: Enable adding a piece of news
  11. 5.11Exercise solution
  12. 5.12Exercise: Enable users to delete news
  13. 5.13Exercise solution

6.Packages: admin dashboard, navigation, validation, forms generation

  1. 6.1What are packages
  2. 6.2Searching for and installing packages
  3. 6.3Back-office management
  4. 6.4Exercise: Create back-office for data management
  5. 6.5Exercise solution
  6. 6.6Navigation
  7. 6.7Exercise: Enable routing and create a layout
  8. 6.8Exercise solution
  9. 6.9Schemas, validation
  10. 6.10Exercise: Create a collection and schema for the products
  11. 6.11Exercise solution
  12. 6.12CRUD forms generation
  13. 6.13Exercise: Create GUI for the user to display and add products with validation
  14. 6.14Exercise solution
  15. 6.15Bootstrap
  16. 6.16Exercise: Add some style to the application
  17. 6.17Exercise solution

7.Accounts: user management

  1. 7.1Meteor’s account system
  2. 7.2Exercise: Secure the products management
  3. 7.3Exercise solution

8.Going further

  1. 8.1MiniMongo: you don’t even need MongoDB
  2. 8.2Exercise: Create and manage a shopping cart
  3. 8.3Exercise solution
  4. 8.4Getting out of prototyping
  5. 8.5Exercise: Remove the autopublish package
  6. 8.6Exercise solution
  7. 8.7Exercise: Remove the insecure package
  8. 8.8Exercise solution

Definitions

  1. Bundling
  2. Minification
  3. npm
  4. Spacebars

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