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Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

By : Fabian Vogelsteller
Book Image

Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

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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Index

Meteor and databases

Meteor currently uses MongoDB by default to store data on the server, although there are drivers planned for use with relational databases too.

Note

If you are adventurous, you can try one of the community-built SQL drivers, such as the numtel:mysql package from https://atmospherejs.com/numtel/mysql.

MongoDB is a NoSQL database. This means it is based on a flat document structure instead of a relational table structure. Its document approach makes it ideal for JavaScript as documents are written in BJSON, which is very similar to the JSON format.

Meteor has a database everywhere approach, which means that we have the same API to query the database on the client as well as on the server. Yet, when we query the database on the client, we are only able to access the data that we published to a client.

MongoDB uses a data structure called collection, which is the equivalent of a table in a SQL database. Collections contain documents, where each document has its own unique...