Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Build Applications with Meteor Cover

Build Applications with Meteor

Isomorphic JavaScript web development

Paid access
|Jun 2017
Product purchase options

Build a variety of cross-platform applications with the world's most complete full-stack JavaScript framework— Meteor

Key Features

  • * 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

Book Description

This book starts with the basic installation and overview of the main components in Meteor. You’ll 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. We’ll 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, you’ll have the skills to quickly prototype and even launch your next app idea in a matter of days.

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 Twitter's streaming and Facebook's Messenger
  • * Add search functionality from scratch to your existing app and data
  • * Add responsiveness with Bootstrap 4 and Google's 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.

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.

Table of Contents

  1. Installing and Setting up the development environment
  2. Building a Shopping Cart
  3. Style your React components with Bootstrap and Material Design
  4. Real-Time Twitter Streaming
  5. Developing Kanban Project Management Tool
  6. Build Real-Time Search Application
  7. Real-Time Maps
  8. Build a Chatbot with Facebook
  9. Building Internet of Things Platform
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78712-473-8
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2017 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 388