Chapter 9. Advanced Reactivity
Now our blog is basically complete, as we can create and edit entries. In this chapter, we will make use of Meteor's reactive templates to make our interface timestamps update itself. We will build a reactive object that will rerun the template helper, which displays the time when the blog entries were created. This way, they will always display the correct relative time.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Reactive programming
Rerunning functions manually
Building a reactive object using the
TrackerpackageStopping reactive functions
Note
If you've jumped right into the chapter and want to follow the examples, download the previous chapter's code examples from either the book's web page at https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/support/17713 or from the GitHub repository at https://github.com/frozeman/book-building-single-page-web-apps-with-meteor/tree/chapter8.
These code examples will also contain all the style files, so we don't have to worry...