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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
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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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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Getting Started with Meteor
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1. Getting Started with Meteor
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The full-stack framework of Meteor
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Meteor's requirements
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Installing Meteor
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Creating our first app
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Adding basic packages
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Variable scopes
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Meteor's folder conventions and loading order
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Meteor's command-line tool
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Summary
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2. Building HTML Templates
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2. Building HTML Templates
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Writing templates in Meteor
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Building the basic templates
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Adding templates and partials
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Displaying data with template helpers
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Setting the data context for a template
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"this" in template helpers and template callbacks
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Adding events
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Block helpers
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Listing posts
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Spacebars syntax
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Summary
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3. Storing Data and Handling Collections
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3. Storing Data and Handling Collections
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Meteor and databases
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Setting up a collection
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Adding post examples
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Querying a collection
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Updating a collection
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Database everywhere
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Differences between client and server collections
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4. Controlling the Data Flow
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4. Controlling the Data Flow
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Syncing data – the current Web versus the new Web
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Removing the autopublish package
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Publishing data
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Publishing only parts of data
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Publishing specific fields
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Lazy loading posts
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Switching subscriptions
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Some notes on data publishing
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5. Making Our App Versatile with Routing
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5. Making Our App Versatile with Routing
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Adding the iron:router package
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Setting up the router
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Switching to a layout template
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Adding another route
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Moving the posts subscription to the Home route
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Setting up the post route
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Changing the website's title
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6. Keeping States with Sessions
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6. Keeping States with Sessions
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Meteor's session object
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Using sessions in template helpers
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Rerunning functions reactively
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Using autorun in a template
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The reactive session object
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7. Users and Permissions
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7. Users and Permissions
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Meteor's accounts packages
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Adding the accounts packages
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Adding admin functionality to our templates
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Creating the template to edit posts
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Creating the admin user
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Creating routes for the admin
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8. Security with the Allow and Deny Rules
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8. Security with the Allow and Deny Rules
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Adding a function to generate slugs
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Creating a new post
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Editing posts
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Restricting database updates
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Adding a deny rule
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Adding posts using a method call
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Calling the method
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9. Advanced Reactivity
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9. Advanced Reactivity
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Reactive programming
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Building a simple reactive object
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Creating an advanced timer object
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Reactive computations
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10. Deploying Our App
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10. Deploying Our App
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Deploying on meteor.com
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Deploying on other servers
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Outlook
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11. Building Our Own Package
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11. Building Our Own Package
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The structure of a package
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Creating our own package
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Releasing our package to the public
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12. Testing in Meteor
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12. Testing in Meteor
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Types of tests
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Testing packages
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Testing our meteor app
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Acceptance tests
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Summary
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A. Appendix
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A. Appendix
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List of Meteor's command-line tool commands
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The iron:router hooks
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Index
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Index

Acceptance tests

Though we can test client and server code separately with these tests, we can't test the interaction between the two. For this, we need acceptance tests, which, if explained in detail, would go beyond the scope of this chapter.

At the time of this writing, there is no acceptance testing framework that is implemented using Velocity, though there are two you can use.

Nightwatch

The clinical:nightwatch package allows you to run an acceptance test in a simple way as follows:

"Hello World" : function (client) {
     client
        .url("http://127.0.0.1:3000")
        .waitForElementVisible("body", 1000)
        .assert.title("Hello World")
        .end();
}

Though the installation process is not as straightforward as installing a Meteor package, you need to install and run MongoDB and PhantomJS yourself before you can run the tests.

If you want to give it a try, check out the package on atmosphere-javascript website at https://atmospherejs...

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