RAPID LEARNING METEOR
Last updated on 2015-05-21
About the Book
Info
Meteor is open source platform for building web and mobile apps in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Meteor is full stack framework which means that it takes care of Client, Server and DB side of your application.
Meteor home page is at https://www.meteor.com.
Book content
This book is collection of standalone tutorials.
This means that each tutorial contains minimum amount of code needed to explain specific functionality.
This is in contrast to building a single application where each new functionality is added on top of already explained ones.
Each tutorial has minimum amount of supporting text making emphasis on the code example to do the explaining.
How to use this book
This book can be used as an introduction to Meteor framework covering all of the basic core functionalities.
In addition book will be updated with more tutorials covering more specific subjects.
Book is also intended as Just In Time Support so that user can learn what it needs when it needs it.
This is why tutorials are standalone and minimalistic focusing only at one problem at the time.
You should however first go through the main features of Meteor to familiarize yourself with the core concepts.
This can be done by first going through the main chapters as deep as you see fit.
Then later you can come back to explore other more specific chapters as you need them.
About the Author
Table of Contents
1.1 Features
1.2 Install
1.3 Create Meteor Application
2. Meteor Core
2.1 Meteor Tool
2.1.1 Application
2.1.1.1 Create
2.1.1.2 Start
2.1.1.3 Deploy to Meteor Server
2.1.2 Package
2.1.2.1 Create
2.1.2.2 Publish to Atmosphere
2.1.2.3 Add from Atmosphere
2.1.2.4 Remove from Application
2.1.3 Accounts
2.1.3.1 Log in
2.1.3.2 Log out
2.2 Client
2.2.1 isClient
2.2.2 Client Directory
2.3 Server
2.3.1 isServer
2.3.2 Server Directory
2.4 Directory structure
2.4.1 Access public resources
2.5 Session
2.5.1 Property
2.5.1.1 Set
2.5.1.2 Get
2.5.2 Other
2.5.2.1 Session As Reactive Data Source
2.6 MongoDB
2.6.1 Collection
2.6.1.1 Create - On MiniMongoDB and MongoDB
2.6.1.2 Create - Only on MiniMongoDB
2.6.1.3 Clear – MiniMongoDB Collection
2.6.1.4 Clear – MongoDB Collection – Initiate from Server
2.6.1.5 Clear – MongoDB Collection – Initiate from Client
2.6.2 Insert
2.6.3 Remove
2.6.4 Update
2.6.4.1 Replace document
2.6.4.2 Set property
2.6.4.3 Increment property
2.6.5 Retrieve
2.6.5.1 Document
2.6.5.2 Array
2.6.5.3 Cursor
2.6.5.4 Cursor - Filtered
2.6.5.5 Cursor - Sorted
2.6.5.6 Cursor - Get number of retrieved documents
2.6.6 Publish & Subscribe
2.6.6.1 Publish collection
2.6.6.2 Publish partial collection
2.6.6.3 Publish specific properties
2.6.6.4 Publish multiple partial collections
2.6.6.5 Subscribe using parameters
2.6.7 Allow & Deny
2.6.7.1 Allow
2.6.7.2 Allow & Deny
2.6.7.3 Allow & Deny – Multiple callbacks per DB command
2.6.8 Other
2.6.8.1 MongoDB As Reactive Data Source
2.7 Spacebars
2.7.1 Templates
2.7.1.1 Inclusion Template
2.7.1.2 Inclusion Template with Single Parameter
2.7.1.3 Inclusion Template with Named Parameters
2.7.1.4 Inclusion Template with variable name
2.7.1.5 Block Template
2.7.1.6 Block Template with Single Parameter
2.7.1.7 Block Template with Named Parameters
2.7.2 Helpers
2.7.2.1 Reference helper from body template
2.7.2.2 Reference helper from custom template
2.7.2.3 Helper property
2.7.2.4 Helper function
2.7.2.5 Helper function with parameters
2.7.3 Operators
2.7.3.1 !
2.7.3.2 >
2.7.3.3 #
2.7.3.4 #each
2.7.3.5 #if
2.7.3.6 #unless
2.7.3.7 #with
2.8 Events
2.8.1 Assign Event
2.8.2 Reference document selected from a list
2.8.3 Reference HTML elements
2.8.4 Form with multiple buttons
2.9 Meteor Methods
2.10 Authentication
2.10.1 this.userId – Inside Meteor Method
2.10.2 this.userId – Inside Meteor Publish
2.10.3 Accounts package
2.11 Packages
2.11.1 Expose template
2.11.2 Expose variable
3. Packages
3.1 Insecure
3.1.1 Add insecure package
3.1.2 Remove insecure package
3.1.3 Insecure application
3.1.4 Secure application
3.2 Autopublish
3.2.1 Add autopublish package
3.2.2 Remove autopublish package
3.3 Accounts
3.3.1 Add accounts package
3.3.2 Add User Accounts
3.3.3 Publishing based on user
3.4 AppCache
3.4.1 Add AppCache package
3.4.2 Example application
3.5 GroundDB
3.5.1 Add GroundDB package
3.5.2 Example application
3.6 Meteor Persistent Minimongo
3.6.1 Add Meteor Persistent Minimongo package
3.6.2 Example application
3.7 View Model
3.7.1 Create View Model Application
3.7.2 Create Model View Template
3.8 Iron Router
3.8.1 Add Iron Router package
3.8.2 Create Iron Router Application
3.8.3 Create Static Route
3.8.4 Create Dynamic Route
3.8.5 Retrieve Route URL
3.8.6 Call route from JavaScript
3.8.7 Attach Static Data to Route
3.8.8 Attach Dynamic Data to Route
3.8.9 Layout Template
3.8.10 Layout Template with multiple regions
4. Demo Applications
4.1 Tasks
4.1.1 Authentication based on this.userId
4.1.2 Add task to current user
4.1.3 Show only user tasks
4.1.4 Switch to Accounts package
4.2 MVC
4.3 Event Driven
4.4 Reactive
4. Appendix
5.1 Cons
5.2 Links
5.3 Cheat Sheets
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