Meteor JS

Aliaksei Bahachuk 

Meteor Git

Meteor Platform

Meteor Platform

Principles of Meteor

• Data on the Wire

• One Language

• Database everywhere

• Embraces the ecosystem

• FullStack Reactivity

Meteor Tracker

http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/tracker

View: Blaze or ...

https://www.meteor.com/blaze

Blaze

• Spacebars

• Jade

• others

<div class="friendList">
  <ul>
    {{#each friends}}
      <li class="{{#if selected}}selected{{/if}}">
        {{firstName}} {{lastName}}
      </li>
    {{/each}}
  </ul>
</div>

EJSON

https://www.meteor.com/ejson

EJSON

> EJSON.stringify({ when: new Date })
"{"when":{"$date":1412884295442}}"


> EJSON.stringify({ imageData: new Uint8Array(10) })
"{"imageData":{"$binary":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAA=="}}"


> EJSON.stringify({_id: new Mongo.ObjectID})
"{"_id":{"$type":"oid","$value":"34c420c028fb169c31041ab0"}}"

Protocol: DDP

https://www.meteor.com/ddp

LiveQuery

https://www.meteor.com/livequery

MiniMongo

https://www.meteor.com/mini-databases

IsoBuild

https://www.meteor.com/isobuild

Atmosphere or Npm

https://atmospherejs.com

Core of Meteor

When not to use Meteor

• Migration from ...

• Web service/web API

• No real time data

• Website

• SQL DB

• Scalability 

DEMO

Structure of Meteor App

• Client

• Server

• Node_modules

• Public

• Private

• Tests 

Latency Compensation

PubSub

// on the server
Meteor.publish('posts', function() {
    if(isAdmin(this.userId)){
        return Posts.find();
    }else{
      return Posts.find({flagged: false});
    }
});

// on the server
Meteor.publish('posts', function(author) {
  return Posts.find({flagged: false, author: author});
});

// on the client
Meteor.subscribe('posts', 'bob-smith');