Build Applications with Meteor

English | 2017 | ISBN: 978-1787129887 | 355 Pages | PDF, EPUB, AZW3 | 15 MB

This book starts with the basic installation and overview of the main components in Meteor. You’ll get hands-on multiple versatile applications covering a wide range of topics from adding a front-end views with the hottest rendering technology React to implementing a microservices oriented architecture.All the code is written with ES6/7 which is the latest significantly improved JavaScript language. We’ll also look at real-time data streaming, server to server data exchange, responsive styles on the front-end, full-text search functionality, and integration of many third-party libraries and APIs using npm.
By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills to quickly prototype and even launch your next app idea in a matter of days.
What You Will Learn

• See how Meteor fits in the modern web application development by using its reactive data system
• Make your front-end behave consistently across environments by implementing a predictable state container with Redux
• Get familiar with React and overview of Angular 2
• Add a map to your application with a real-time geolocation
• Plugin into Meteor social media APIs like Twitter’s streaming and Facebook’s Messenger
• Add search functionality from scratch to your existing app and data
• Add responsiveness with Bootstrap 4 and Google’s Material Design using Less and Sass
• Distribute your data across machines and data centers by adding Apache Cassandra to your existing stack.
• Learn how to scale your microservices with the high performant language neutral framework gRPC.
• Learn how to query multiple data sources using GraphQL.
• Build a modern single-page web application
• Understand the workflow of an Aurelia application
• Design reusable web components, which can be shared and integrated into various frameworks and libraries
• Write clean, modular, and testable code that will be easy to maintain and evolve
• Use all the latest–and even future–web standards, so the application gathers minimal technical debt