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Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

By : Fabian Vogelsteller
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Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

4.5 (8)
By: Fabian Vogelsteller

Overview of this book

If you are a web developer with basic knowledge of JavaScript and want to take on Web 2.0, build real-time applications, or simply want to write a complete application using only JavaScript and HTML/CSS, this is the book for you. This book is based on Meteor 1.0.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Creating our own package

To create our own package, we will use our ReactiveTimer object, which we built in Chapter 9, Advanced Reactivity:

  1. We go to our terminal, in our app's folder and run the following command:
    $ meteor create --package reactive-timer
    
  2. This will create a folder named packages with a reactive-timer folder inside it. Inside the reactive-timer folder, Meteor has already created a package.js file and some example package files.
  3. Now we can delete all the files inside the reactive-timer folder, except the package.js file.
  4. Then we move the my-meteor-blog/client/ReactiveTimer.js file, which we created in Chapter 9, Advanced Reactivity, to our newly created reactive-timer package folder.
  5. Lastly, we open the copied ReactiveTimer.js file and remove the following lines:
    timer = new ReactiveTimer();
    timer.start(10);

    Later, we'll instantiate the timer object inside the app itself and not in the package file.

We should now have a simple folder with the default package.js file and...

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