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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

Creating a new post


Now that we can generate slugs for each created page, we can proceed to add the saving process to the editPost template.

To do so, we need to create a JavaScript file for our editPost template by saving a file called editPost.js to the my-meteor-blog/client/templates folder. Inside this file, we will add an event for the Save button of the template:

Template.editPost.events({
  'submit form': function(e, template){
    e.preventDefault();
    console.log('Post saved');
  }
});

Now, if we go to the /create-post route and click on the Save Post button, the Post saved log should appear in the browser's console.

Saving a post

In order to save the post, we will simply take the form's content and store it in the database. Later, we'll redirect to the newly created post page. To do so, we extend our click event with the following lines of code:

Template.editPost.events({
  'submit form': function(e, tmpl){
    e.preventDefault();
    var form = e.target,
        user = Meteor.user...