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Meteor Cookbook

Meteor Cookbook

By : Isaac Strack
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Meteor Cookbook

Meteor Cookbook

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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.
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Using client-only collections

To truly understand how DDP works, it's helpful to try rolling your own as far as communicating with data over the wire is concerned. The best way to do this (and a quite helpful recipe to boot!) is to let the client continue to take advantage of the built-in Mongo collections and programmatically send updates from the server based on some simple logic. This recipe will walk you through creating a client-only collection and manipulating this collection with calls on the server side.

Getting ready

We are going to need a sample project to use as a baseline. For this baseline, we will quickly create a bookmark application. No bells and whistles, just a simple list of bookmark titles and URLs.

To do this, we first need our default template scaffolding. Please create a new project called bookmarks using the Setting up your project file structure recipe in Chapter 1, Optimizing Your Workflow, as your starting file structure.

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