Build Applications with Meteor

Build a variety of cross-platform applications with the world's most complete full-stack JavaScript framework-- MeteorAbout This Book* Develop a set of real-world applications each exploring different features of Meteor* Make your app more appealing by adding reactivity and responsiveness to it* Work with the most powerful feature of Meteor--the "full stack reactivity"--through building real-time applications with many third party librariesWho This Book Is ForIf you are a developer who...
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Build a variety of cross-platform applications with the world's most complete full-stack JavaScript framework-- MeteorAbout This Book* Develop a set of real-world applications each exploring different features of Meteor* Make your app more appealing by adding reactivity and responsiveness to it* Work with the most powerful feature of Meteor--the "full stack reactivity"--through building real-time applications with many third party librariesWho This Book Is ForIf you are a developer who is looking forward to taking your application development skills with Meteor to next level by getting your hands-on different projects, this book is for you.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.In DetailThis 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.Style and ApproachThis book takes an easy-to-follow project-based approach. Each project starts with the goal of what you will learn and an overview the technologies used.