Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor
Meteor is the best JavaScript platform on the Web that allows you to build real-time web applications quickly and easily and in pure JavaScript. It comes with a full build process that takes care of everything, from development to production, with no need for configuration. This book takes you from the installation of Meteor to building a fully working web blog (including backend) to create and edit posts.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- Create reactive templates that update themselves when data changes
- Use database queries on the client and the server to retrieve, sort, and manipulate datasets
- Understand data synchronization using a publication/subscription model and make API calls a thing of the past
- Discover how you can secure your data flow on the server-side to keep confidential data secret
- Add routing to a single-page application and make it appear like a real website
- Build your own advanced reactive objects and make everything rerun when you want
- Make your own Meteor packages and learn how to make them public
- Unit test your packages and Meteor applications