Build Applications with Meteor

Build a variety of cross-platform applications with the worlds most complete full-stack JavaScript framework― Meteor About 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 libraries 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 • 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 Twitters streaming and Facebooks Messenger • Add search functionality from scratch to your existing app and data • Add responsiveness with Bootstrap 4 and Googles 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 Detail This book starts with the basic installation and overview of the main components in Meteor. Youll 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. Well 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 youll have the skills to quickly prototype and even launch your next app idea in a matter of days. Style and Approach This 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.