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Meteor Cookbook

By : Isaac Strack

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Meteor Cookbook

4.4 (5)

By: Isaac Strack

Overview of this book

This book is meant for developers of all experience levels looking to create mobile and full-stack web applications in JavaScript. Many of the simple recipes can easily be followed by less-experienced developers, while some of the advanced recipes will require extensive knowledge of existing web, mobile, and server technologies. Any application or enterprise web developer looking to create full-stack JavaScript-based apps will benefit from the recipes and concepts covered in this book.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Optimizing Your Workflow

1. Optimizing Your Workflow

Introduction

Installing Meteor

Finding documentation for Meteor

Getting help with questions

Setting up your project file structure

Setting up your development environment

Using the web console

Deploying a test app to Meteor

Deploying to Meteor using a CNAME redirect

Deploying to a custom hosted environment

Deploying with Meteor Up (MUP)

Using CoffeeScript

Using CSS compilers

2. Customizing with Packages

2. Customizing with Packages

Introduction

Adding Meteor packages

Removing Meteor packages

Discovering new packages with Atmosphere

Creating a multipage application with Iron Router

Building a custom package

Using npm modules

Publishing custom packages to Atmosphere

3. Building Great User Interfaces

3. Building Great User Interfaces

Introduction

Inserting templates with Spacebars

Inserting raw HTML using triple braces

Creating dynamic lists

Building a smooth interface with Bootstrap

Creating customized global helpers

Creating custom components

Using reactivity with HTML attributes

Using dynamic templates

Animating DOM elements

4. Creating Models

4. Creating Models

Introduction

Implementing a simple collection

Using the Session object

Sorting with MongoDB queries

Filtering with MongoDB queries

Creating upsert MongoDB queries

Implementing a partial collection

5. Implementing DDP

5. Implementing DDP

Introduction

Reading the DDP stream

Using client-only collections

Implementing multiserver DDP

Integrating DDP with other technologies

6. Mastering Reactivity

6. Mastering Reactivity

Introduction

Creating and consuming a reactive value

Using Ajax query results in ReactiveVar

Making a custom library reactive

Updating Blaze templates without Mongo

Using inline data to modify UI elements reactively

Integrating a jQuery UI

7. Using Client Methods

7. Using Client Methods

Introduction

Creating dynamic graphs with SVG and Ajax

Using the HTML FileReader to upload images

Creating a coloring book with the Canvas element

8. Integrating Third-party Libraries

8. Integrating Third-party Libraries

Introduction

Using npm packages directly

Building graphs with D3.js

Creating cutting-edge UIs with Polymer

9. Securing Your Application

9. Securing Your Application

Introduction

Basic safety – turning off autopublish

Basic safety – removing insecure

Securing data transactions with allow and deny

Hiding data with façades

Protecting the client with browser-policy

10. Working with Accounts

10. Working with Accounts

Introduction

Implementing OAuth accounts packages

Customizing the accounts login

Performing two-factor authentication

11. Leveraging Advanced Features

11. Leveraging Advanced Features

Introduction

Building custom server methods

Creating custom EJSON objects

Handling asynchronous events

Using asynchronous functions

12. Creating Useful Projects

12. Creating Useful Projects

Introduction

Creating RESTful web services

Creating a complete app with Iron Router

Deploying apps to mobile devices

Adding social sharing

Index

Index

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Using CoffeeScript

Many people prefer CoffeeScript to the standard JavaScript syntax. If you are one of those people with a preference, Meteor has you covered. This recipe will show you how to quickly enable CoffeeScript in your development environment.

Getting ready

Nothing is needed to prepare for this recipe, other than having Meteor installed, and a project created so that you can begin using CoffeeScript.

How to do it…

To use CoffeeScript, proceed with the following steps:

Open a terminal window and navigate to the root folder of your project.
Enter the following command:
```
$ meteor add coffeescript
```
You should see the following response in the terminal window:
```
coffeescript  added, version 1.0.
```
CoffeeScript is now installed and ready to go!

You can test the installation by creating a .coffee file and adding a script (for example, add test.coffee to your client folder). When you start your Meteor application with the meteor command, the script should execute as designed.

Tip

You can uninstall CoffeeScript easily. Simply execute the following terminal command:

$ meteor remove coffeescript

How it works…

Behind the scenes, the CoffeeScript package you just installed looks for any and all *.coffee and *.litcoffee files, compiles them into native JavaScript, and then bundles them for use in your running Meteor application.

Note

As with all other files in a running Meteor application, changes to your CoffeeScript are immediately processed.

See also

The Adding Meteor packages recipe in Chapter 2, Customizing with Packages

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