2. Michael Elfassy
twitter: @michaelelfassy
github: elfassy
stackoverflow: montrealmike
website: smashingboxes.com
Durham, NC | San Francisco | Montreal
6. Yes! In fact you’ll build apps that:
● are more responsive
● have built-in collaboration
● are more fun (and faster) to write
● support hot code push
● are easily compiled for multiple platforms
9. How does it work?
An can you justify those bold claims
10. 7 principles of meteor
● Data on the Wire
● One Language
● Database Everywhere
● Latency Compensation
● Full Stack Reactivity
● Embrace the Ecosystem
● Simplicity Equals Productivity
11. Apps feel responsive
Latency compensation
● Database everywhere
● One language
● Data on the wire (aka: Client side rendering)
BONUS:
No network
compensation
http://manning.com/hochhaus/Meteor_MEAP_CH01.pdf
12. Apps have built-in collaboration
Full-stack reactivity
● Livequery - Watch DB for changes
● DDP - Send data back and forth to the client
o replay cache
o publish / subscribe
● MiniMongo - store data and do database queries on the client
● Tracker
o recomputation is done automatically
o view updates with no extra code
● Blaze - rendering
Read more about these components on meteor.com/projects
13. Database, Security, Business Logic, User interactions
Rendering
HTTP / HTML
Database, Security, Business Logic Rendering, User interactions
HTTP / XML (AJAX)
DDP / JSON
Rendering, User interactions,
Security Business Logic, Database
1995
2005
2014
14. Apps are more fun / faster to write
● One language
o share code between client and server (DRY)
o Write less code
● Embrace the ecosystem
o Packager
o http://atmospherejs.com
● Simplicity (KISS)
o all the components, not just a library to solve one problem
o configuration-free minifier, deployer...
o no need to write code to update the view
o no need to write code to sync data
15. Apps auto-reload
● Hot code push
o don’t lose your user’s state
o work even when adding new packages
● Bypass Apple!
o use wisely
16. Apps that are cross platform
demo!
> meteor run ios
> meteor run android
17. Don’t be a dinosaur
Your clients expect:
● apps that feel native
● collaborative apps
● you to write these apps in days,
not months
