1. Introduction
1.1 What this book is not
I made my best to keep this book small, so that you can learn Meteor quickly without getting lost in petty details. If you’re looking for a reference book where you’ll find answers to all the questions you may have within the next 4 years of your Meteor practice, you’ll find other heavy books for that.
My purpose is to swiftly provide you with the tools you need to code your first Meteor application and be able to look for more by yourself when needed. While some authors seems to pride themselves in having the thickest book, in this series I’m glad I achieved the thinnest possible book for my purpose. Though I tried my best to keep all of what seems necessary, based on my 14 years experience of teaching.
I assume that you know what Meteor is and when to use it. In case you don’t, read the following Why Meteor ? chapter.
1.2 Prerequisites
In order for this book to meet its goals, you must :
- Have basic experience creating applications with JavaScript.
- Have working knowledge of HTML.
- Know what a Web application is.
1.3 How to read this book
This book’s aim is to make you productive as quickly as possible. For this we’ll use some theory, several demonstrations, plus exercises. Exercises appear like the following:
1.4 Tools you need
The only tools you’ll need to work through that book are:
- A Windows, Linux or OS X machine
- A text editor. My own favorite is the free Visual Studio Code, just pick the one you like
1.5 Source code
All of the source code for the demos and do-it-yourself solutions is available at https://bitbucket.org/epobb/learnmeteorexercises
It can be downloaded as a ZIP file, or if you installed GIT you can simply type: