MODERN WEBAPPS
-- Stand back while Meteor does its thing --
Adrian Liaw
meteor!?
meteor.js
- Modern user interface
- Browser and Mobile
- Live updates
- Ultra responsive
- Radically less code
- One language everywhere
- Unified package system
- Hot deploys
a quick demo
client-side mongo!?!?
traditional webapps
how meteor works
SERVER
Publish DB
Define Meteor methods
(Can be invoke
over the network
by clients)
CLIENT
Routing
Live templating
Subscribe DB
Handle events
Sessions
HTTP Request
HTTP Response
(Raw html templates)
Live updating
Live updating
DDP
{type: "json"}
minimongo
Posts.insert({text: "Hello!"})
Simulates the update immediately
Sends JSON to the server by DDP
Real update
001001010010
100100010100
110111010010
Broadcast to all clients
realtime updates!!
install meteor
meteor is currently 1.0
$ curl http://install.meteor.com/ | shcreate a new meteor app
$ meteor create mycoolapp
$ cd mycoolapp
$ meteorexample todo
$ meteor create --example todos
$ cd todos
$ meteordeploying an app
meteor also provides hosting
$ meteor deploy xxxxx.meteor.com