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Build Applications with Meteor

By : Dobrin Ganev

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By: Dobrin Ganev

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Overview of this book

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.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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Foundation of Meteor

Setting up the development environment

Building a Meteor app

The frontend with React

Summary

Building a Shopping Cart

Creating the project structure

On the server

Building the application components

Adding router to the application

Meteor methods

Considerations for scalability

Summary

Style Your React Components with Bootstrap and Material Design

Mobile first

Modular CSS with LESS

Modular CSS with Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets

Bootstrap and Meteor

Using CSS modules with Meteor

Meteor and webpack styling the shopping cart

Styling the shopping cart with Material Design Lite

Summary

Real-Time Twitter Streaming

Twitter streaming

Meteor with Redux

Building the App

Async actions in Redux

Creating the App components

Connecting the Redux store with the React components

Summary

Developing Kanban Project Management Tool

Drag and drop in React

Building the App

The reducer function

Building the Modal

Summary

Building a Real-Time Search Application

Importing the data

Index a text field

Try it out!

Building the app

Summary

Real-Time Maps

Building the App

Summary

Build a Chatbot with Facebook’s Messenger Platform

Building the app

Summary

Build Internet of Things Platform

What is gRPC?

Building the apps

Summary

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Build a Chatbot with Facebook’s Messenger Platform

In this chapter, we will build a chatbot application with Facebook's Messenger platform using a completely different stack from what we were using so far in this book. For our view layer, we will swap React with Angular 2. To query data from the server, we will use a query language GraphQL, and in addition to MongoDB, we will add the Cassandra database. We won't be able to cover all of the preceding technologies in a great depth in one chapter, but certainly exploring other technologies can only benefit us as full-stack developers.

First, we can start from the frontend by creating a simple Meteor app with implementing Angular 2 as our view layer with all the necessary tooling that we need. We will use TypeScript instead of ES6, which is the recommended (by the Angular team) way of writing Angular 2 apps. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript...