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Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

Build real-time single page apps at lightning speed using the most powerful full-stack JavaScript framework around

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|Oct 2025
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    Book Description

    If you are a web developer with basic knowledge of JavaScript and want to take on Web 2.0, build real-time applications, or simply want to write a complete application using only JavaScript and HTML/CSS, this is the book for you.
    This book is based on Meteor 1.0.

    What you will learn

    • Create reactive templates that update themselves when data changes
    • Use database queries on the client and the server to retrieve, sort, and manipulate datasets
    • Understand data synchronization using a publication/subscription model and make API calls a thing of the past
    • Discover how you can secure your data flow on the server side to keep confidential data secret
    • Add routing to a singlepage application and make it appear like a real website
    • Build your own advanced reactive objects and make everything rerun when you want
    • Make your own Meteor packages and learn how to make them public
    • Unit test your packages and Meteor applications

    Who this book is for

    If you are a web developer with basic knowledge of JavaScript and want to take on Web 2.0, build real-time applications, or simply want to write a complete application using only JavaScript and HTML/CSS, this is the book for you.

    Table of Contents

    1. Getting started with meteor
    2. Building HTML templates
    3. Storing data
    4. Controlling the data flow
    5. Making our app versatile with Routing
    6. Keeping states with Sessions
    7. Users and permissions
    8. Security with allow and deny rules
    9. Advanced Reactivity
    10. Deploying your app
    11. Build your own package
    12. Testing in meteor
    13. Appendix
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-813-6
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 198
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