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Me 

• @rebolon
• Manager Technique @Peaks et TechSniffer @Home
• PHP (SF2), MeteorJs

Informations

• Thanks @wulfmeister for the slides
• Thank you to be here !
• Schedule

Who's here?

• Programmed at all ?
• Written some JS ?
• Heard of Meteor ?

Kind of a big deal:

• Over 150 meetup groups around the world
• Over 2000 community-authored packages hosted at atmospherejs.com
• #11 on GitHub
• http://meteorday.com/

A quick history of web apps

(summary forked from @sachagreif)

client-side JS

• Client
  • JavaScript (Angular, Ember, Backbone...)
• Server
  • Python, Ruby, PHP... (Django, Rails, SF2...)

server-side JS

• Client
  • JavaScript (Angular, Ember, Backbone...)
• Server
  • Node.js (Express, Restify, hapi...)

full-stack JS

• Client
  • JavaScript (Meteor, Derby, Sails)
• Server
  • Node.js (Meteor, Derby, Sails)

So what is it?

• Framework?
• Platform?
• Company?
• Thing that killed the Dinosaurs?

The Project

• Open-source (free)
• Meteor Development Group
• $11mm
• Galaxy

Live Coding before next step

Good Luck Ben !

Please, no Bonaldi Fx ;-)

The structure

• Independent Packages that work together (the "Meteor Platform")
  • Livequery:  watch DB
  • DDP:  pub/sub
  • Minimongo:  Mongo on the client
  • Tracker:  enables reactive updates
  • Blaze:  render view based on updates

Customization

• Atmosphere + NPM
• Take all you need, change all you want.
• Ex: drop in another backend or frontend

Show me!

(demo)

Example Apps

• Todos, collaborative todos app in <600 lines of JS

• Local Market, store social engagement mobile app in <1000 lines of JS

$ meteor create --example todos

$ meteor create --example localmarket

Production Examples

• beta.workpop.com
• downtochill.com
• respond.ly

Learning

• The official tutorial at meteor.com/try
• Books
  • Your First Meteor Application
  • Discover Meteor
  • Meteor in Action
• Videos
  • EventedMind
• docs.meteor.com

Interacting

• real-time
  • Room for the Meteor repo on Gitter
  • IRC
  • meteor-talk
  • Twitter @meteorjs #meteorjs
• async
  • Stack overflow
  • Crater.io
  • madewith.meteor.com

Doing!

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

#create and run a project
$ meteor create my_app
$ cd my_app
$ meteor

#put it on the internet!
$ meteor deploy some-url.meteor.com

• meetup.com/meteor-lyon

• lyon.meteor.com

• github.com/meteorLyon

• @rebolon

• Slides:  http://bit.ly/1x5Ph9J

#todos example:
$ meteor create --example todos

#localmarket example:
$ meteor create --example localmarket

meteorday.meteor.com

Any burning questions?