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Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2015

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ISBN-13 9781785285547

Length 138 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

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Meteor

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Universal Web Development

Author (1):

Isaac Strack

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Setup and Installation

2. Reactive Programming…It's Alive! FREE CHAPTER

3. Why Meteor Rocks!

4. Templates

5. Data – Meteor Style!

6. Application Structure – Client, Server, and Public (oh my!)

7. Packaging and Deploying

Index

Chapter 2. Reactive Programming…It's Alive!

As we learned in Chapter 1, Setup and Installation, Meteor operates on a reactive programming model. This means that your templates aren't only concerned with displaying data, but they are also listening for changes to that data so that they can "react" to those changes. These areas of data where the templates look for changes are called reactive contexts.

We will now start developing a Lending Library application, lay the framework for future chapters, and use Meteor's built-in reactive model to track and propagate changes to our application to all clients that are listening.

In this chapter, you will learn about:

Creating your first real application
Using reactive programming to track and automatically update changes
Exploring and testing changes made to your data from multiple browser windows

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Authors (1)

Isaac Strack

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).

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