Build Applications with Meteor

Build a variety of cross-platform applications with the world's most complete full-stack JavaScript framework- Meteor About This Book * Develop a set of popular applications each exploring different features of Meteor.js * 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 Who This Book Is For If 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 * Set up your development environment and structure and build modular components in ES6/7 * Get to know about the three major viewing templates supported by Meteor Blaze, Angular, and React * Understand Meteor's reactive data system by building variety of real-time applications * Explore packages from npm and Atmosphere to write your own modules and import them with ES6 syntax * Stream data from the server to the client * Integrate real-time geolocation to a Meteor app * Add search functionality from scratch to your existing app and data * Add responsiveness with Twitter's Bootstrap and Google's Material Design using Less and Sass * Authenticate your users with the most popular social services: Facebook and Twitter * Decouple your clients from your back-end services with Facebook's GraphQL In Detail If you want to master both front-end and back-end application development skills, then Meteor is the right solution. Meteor is a pure JavaScript open source framework that supports a vast variety of community packages and libraries. This book will walk you through the steps of building full-stack, real-world applications with the latest features in the Meteor platform. This book starts with the basic installation and overview of the main components in Meteor. You'll get hands on with multiple versatile applications covering a wide range of topics from templating with the hottest rendering technology React to package management with npm and Atmosphere. It also prescribes a project layout structure for universal applications with ES6/7 modules, which is the latest significantly improved JavaScript language. We'll also look at real-time data streaming and adding responsive styles and search functionality to your app. 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.