Strack I. - Meteor Cookbook

Isaac Strack is a speaker, author, inventor, technologist, and a strong advocate of STEM education. With over 15 years of experience in Management Information Systems (MIS) and web/mobile technologies, he enjoys discovering and applying new technologies to make our lives more enjoyable and productive.

An early adopter of Meteor, Isaac is the author of Getting Started With Meteor.js JavaScript Framework , Packt Publishing , and the recently released video series Learning Meteor Application Development , Packt Publishing .

He currently serves on the board of directors for the Wasatch Institute of Technology (http://wasatchinstitute.net), one of Utah's newest and most innovative high schools, employing a project-based, agile teaching methodology known as Next Generation Education.

When he isn't poking around new JavaScript frameworks, advocating more and better STEM education in the state of Utah, or playing a mean game of mediocre middle-aged soccer, Isaac is at home with his amazing wife, Kirsten, and his four daughters, one of whom will most certainly rule the world (our money is on the youngest).

I'd like to thank all of the folks at Packt Publishing (especially Shubhangi Dhamgaye) for their patience, diligence, and kindness. I'd also like to thank my most excellent managers, Tim Plumer and Lynn Grillo at Adobe Systems, for never being anything but my personal champions. I'd like to thank Reza Jalili for sharing his enthusiasm and for turning what could have been a burden into a joyful experience. Thanks and love go out to my family. We've been through so much this last year. It's a miracle and a blessing to have each other and to need each other. I can't imagine life without all of you. Lastly, I'd like to thank my Heavenly Father and my Savior. Our hearts and minds are prone to wander. Grace, it seems, is the sweetest, most powerful call home.

Jebin B V is a young frontend developer by profession and a full-stack developer by experience. He has been into web development for the past 4 years and has a good command of the design and development of commercial web applications. He also has a very good sense of design, interaction, and UX when it comes to web development.

He has developed applications for real-time messaging, big data management, visualization, network shopping management, CMS, social networking, and so on. He has great interest in Javascript, so anything that is from a Javascript background excites him. He also has experience in PHP and Java.

He possesses a very good notion of application-level design when it comes to building frontend applications. He has a nonstop habit of learning on an everyday basis. He spends a great deal of time updating himself with new avenues coming up in frontend technologies. He loves to learn, teach, master, and lead in his field of expertise.

Ryan Wilcox has been programming desktop and web applications for the last 15 years using a wide variety of technologies, from C++ to Objective-C, and Python to Ruby and Javascript development, both server and client side. He's also spent the last 2 years working with Node on various-sized projects and is excited about how Meteor solves the client/server dichotomy present in other Javascript web application solutions.

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Preface

Stop and think for just a minute about the last time you were delighted .

I'd bet good money that whatever that delightful experience was, it had nothing to do with a new JavaScript framework. Well, that is about to change.

Meteor is not just another JavaScript framework that you'll forget the name of a few weeks from now. It was createdand is continuously improved uponby legit computer scientists driven by a vision of how software development should be. Their mantra is that "programming should be fun" and as you go through this list of Meteor recipes, you will see exactly how much fun it really is to develop applications using Meteor.

Meteor is modular and declarative, supports data-on-the-wire, is well supported by a thriving development community, and implements full-stack reactivity. This sounds like a bunch of meaningless buzzwords, until you fully grasp their impact on your day-to-day development efforts.