About Me

• Self-taught Developer
• Doing Node since 1.5 years
• Doing Meteor since 1 year
• Asst. Organizer at Meteor Mumbai Meetup Group
• Technology enthusiast
• Loves Open Source
• Blogger

@_ajduke

ajduke

http://blog.ajduke.in

What is Meteor?

Open Source Platform for Building Real-time apps 

For Web and Mobile apps

Built to Power for Next -gen Modern Apps

Its both Front and Backend

Provides Full stack reactivity

One Language- Javascript

Maintained by Meteor Development Group (MDG) and community

Meteor Vs. Other Node stack

Some Node Stack

• Derby.js
• Sails.js
• MEAN Stack

Source:  http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/essays/meteor_js_vs_the_mean_stack

What Meteor is Composed of 

• Node.js
• MongoDB
• Handlebars like Templating
• JQuery
• Sock.js
• and much more

Quick Start

Install Meteor

$ curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh

Linux/ OS X

Windows

  Download Official Installer-
  https://install.meteor.com/windows

Create Project

meteor create myapp 

Run Project

$ cd myapp
$ meteor
=> Meteor server running on: http://localhost:3000/

App Demo 

App Source Code

https://github.com/ajduke/meteor-polling

Meteor Architecture

Source: http://joshowens.me/what-is-meteor-js/

Meteor Components

• Live Query:  Handling Realtime database queries
• DDP: Communication Protocol for real-time feature
• MiniMongo: Small version of Mongodb in browser
• Tracker: Reactive component on client 
• Blaze: Keeps view up to date with Data
• Spacebars: Handlerbar like but built for reactiveness                 

More on this here:  http://meteor.com/projects

Main Components

Running Mobile Apps

Running for Android

meteor install-sdk android

meteor add-platform android

// run on android simulator
meteor run android

// run on connected android device
meteor run android-device

Running for iOS

// install SDk
meteor install-sdk ios

// add the platform
meteor add-platform ios

// run ios simulator
meteor run ios

// run on connected ios device
meteor run ios-device

App Directory Structure  

Directory Structure

/.meteor/...

/client/...

/lib/...

/server/...

/public/...

/tests/...

Packaging System

AtmosphereJS

• Official Package Repository
• Over  5600+ packages 
• Built with Meteor
• Growing no. packages built by community

https://atmospherejs.com/

NPM

• Community port for using NPM modules 
• Direct access to 1.5 Lacs npm packages

https://www.npmjs.com/

Deployment

On Meteor Infrastructure

deployment using CLI

• free small instances 
• only for apps prototype 
• easy to deploy
• handy urls (youappname.meteor.com)
• No Management UI

$ meteor deploy myapp.meteor.com

On Other Infrastructures

Create bundle using CLI

• Bundle Meteor App to Node
• Bundled app can be used anywhere with Node like EC2, Heruko Paas etc
• Modulus has infrastructure for deployment of Meteor
• MDG working on Product- Galaxy, Not yet released !

$ meteor bundle myapp.tgz

Production Apps