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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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Creating and consuming a reactive value

Tracker, simply put, is Meteor's variable tracking system. It is used to manage reactive values, data structures, and computations (functions that consume reactive values). This recipe will show you how to create reactive values, and perform computations on those values, using Tracker.autorun(). In other words, it will teach you how reactive programming works inside Meteor. This recipe will come in handy as a foundation for more complex functionalities.

Getting ready

For the sake of simplicity, we will be using a default Meteor project, with the reactive-var package added to it. Open a terminal window, navigate to where you would like to create your root project, and execute the following commands:

$ meteor create reactiverecipes
$ cd reactiverecipes
$ meteor add reactive-var
$ meteor

You are now ready to start using reactive variables.

How to do it...

We are going to modify the text of a button, based on a reactive variable; so we will need to create...

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