Vogelsteller - Building single-page Web apps with Meteor: build real-time apps at lightning speed using the most powerful full-stack JavaScript framework

Riccardo Mancinelli acquired a degree in electronic engineering. He has more than 9 years of experience in IT, specializing in frontend and backend software development. He is currently working as an IT architect consultant and senior Java developer. He loves any tool and programming language that will make achievement of his goals easier and faster. Besides programming, his favorite hobby is reading.

Rohit Mukherjee is a final year student of computer engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has spent some time in Zurich, Switzerland, studying graduate courses in computer science at ETH, Zurich. He has worked in financial and healthcare technologies and enjoys working his way through the stack.

I would like to thank my parents and Pratish Mondal for their support.

Isaac Strack is an Adobe DPS solutions consultant, and has worked in MIS, web, and app development for over 15 years. An inventor, author, and design technologist, he currently specializes in cutting-edge web technologies, digital publications, and mobile applications. Isaac is the co-captain of the Meteor SLC Meetup group, regularly meeting other meteorites to discuss and share their passions and projects. He is a volunteer for the board of directors of Wasatch Institute of Technology, Utah's first computer science high school (http://wasatchinstitute.net). He is also a member of the Adobe STEAM team, helping promote and foster STEM and Arts education for students of Utah, preparing them for future jobs. As a father of four girls, his passion and energy for technology education are seen through the various presentations, events, and classes he participates in each year. He firmly believes that education is the great equalizer, bringing confidence, prosperity, and joy to everyone, regardless of background or ethnicity.

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Preface

Thank you for buying this book. You made a great choice for a new step in frontend and JavaScript technology. The Meteor framework is not just another library that aims to make things easier. It is a complete solution for a web server, client logic, and templates. Additionally, it contains a complete build process, which will make working for the Web by chunks faster. Thanks to Meteor, linking your scripts and styles is a thing of the past, as the automatic build process takes care of everything for you. Surely, this is a big change, but you will soon love it, as it makes extending your app as fast as creating a new file.

Meteor aims to create single-page applications where real time is the default. It takes care of the data synchronization and updating of the DOM. If data changes, your screen will be updated. These two basic concepts make up a lot of the work we do as web developers, and with Meteor this happens without any extra line of code.

In my opinion, Meteor is a complete game changer in modern web development. It introduces the following patterns as defaults:

• Fat clients: All of the logic resides on the client. HTML is only sent on the initial page load