Introductory talk about meteor for the viennajs meetup.

1. Build apps that are a delight to use, faster
than you ever thought possible
http://www.meteor.com

2. What We’ll Cover
• What is Meteor?
• Live Code a Simple Meteor App
• Example Apps
• Learning resources

3. What is Meteor?
• Open source platform for building web and mobile
apps in JavaScript
• Built to power the next generation of apps
• Rich user interfaces
• Collaborative multi-user applications
• Cross-platform apps (web, IOS, Android)
• Fast development

4. How Modern Apps Look & Feel
• Focus on your app’s unique features instead
of wrangling network code, websocket, etc.
• Meteor’s Goal: Facebook-quality apps
without Facebook’s money

5. Old tools don’t work for
modern apps
• Modern apps serve data, not html
• Modern apps shouldn’t need a refresh button
• Rails, Django, PHP, ASP.net etc. are difficult to
adapt to the new model

6. App Demo

7. Components
• LiveQuery – Realtime database queries
• DDP – Subscribe to changes in the database
• MiniMongo – Run database queries on the client
• Tracker – Rerun functions when data changes
• Blaze – Keep the view up-to-date with your data
http://meteor.com/projects

8. Example Apps
• Todos — a full-featured todo list app
meteor create --example todos
• Local Market — a mobile social
engagement app
meteor create --example
localmarket

9. Businesses Built on Meteor

10. WorkPop - Built on Meteor
• Raised $7.9 million Series A led by Trinity Ventures
“the most rapid prototyping, iteration and development
we’ve ever seen from an early stage company”

11. Growing Rapidly
• Over 200 meetup groups around the world –
meteor.meetup.com
• Over 4500 community-authored packages -
atmospherejs.com
• Discover Meteor has made over $300,000 in book
sales (as of Sept. 2014)
• Ranked in top 10 on GitHub (just passed
Backbone, will soon pass Rails)

12. Learning Meteor
•Meteor.com
http://meteor.com/learn
•Official Meteor tutorial
http://meteor.com/install
•Discover Meteor
http://book.discovermeteor.com/
•EventedMind
https://www.eventedmind.com/
•Stack Overflow, tagged Meteor
•Official Meteor Docs
http://docs.meteor.com

13. Thank you!
www.meteor.com/try

14. What’s next?
• Lessons learned during building a meteor app
• Building a product - the lean way
• Passive investing for developers
(yes - it’s about the money)

15. Lean Startup Machine
50% off with:
learnleaner
8th - 10th of May