Learning Meteor Application Development
Master the fundamentals for delivering clean, concise Meteor applications with this friendly, informative guide.
Implement repeatable, effective setup and configuration processes and maximize your development efficiency on every project.
Utilize cutting-edge techniques and templates to reduce the complexity of your applications and create concise, reusable components.
Develop and deploy rock-solid server technologies, implementing both traditional REST APIs and Meteor’s revolutionary DDP service.
Learning
Configure your development environment efficiently, using Meteor to nicely develop any mobile or web application.
Master the use of community, core packages, significantly reducing your development time and effort.
Create simple, elegant HTML-based templates, making your UIs reusable and easier to manage.
Display MongoDB data collections using Meteor’s dynamic, declarative style, significantly reducing code complexity.
Implement inputs and menus, elegantly laid out with Twitter Bootstrap and MasonryJS.
Leverage accounts and security configuration, to support secure, multi-user access to your app.
Discover advanced uses for Iron Router, including implementation of RESTful services
Deploy your application quickly and easily to Meteor’s test servers, or to your very own production environment.
About
With so many JavaScript frameworks and libraries out there, it’s difficult to keep up with the latest and best techniques for building responsive, robust web and mobile applications. Meteor is an incredibly powerful, impossibly fun platform for building modern, responsive web and mobile applications. As new and exciting techniques emerge, technologies like Meteor that adopt principles such as modular components, full-stack reactivity, and data on the wire are leading the charge towards truly effective application development. Meteor stands out from the crowd as the choice for web and mobile application development.
Learning Meteor Application Development will get you up and running on the Meteor platform, and have you well on your way to creating powerful, effective web and mobile applications in hours instead of weeks. By taking advantage of all of Meteor’s efficient development capabilities, you can take your development skills to the next level, and build those “killer apps” you’ve been dreaming about.
We'll begin by installing Meteor, configuring the development environment and building a baseline application, allowing us to quickly and easily create a fully functional application.
Then we’ll create a full-stack application, and build a simple, elegant, data-reactive UI. We will connect that UI to back-end services by creating a MongoDB data collection, Meteor DDP services, and a RESTful API.
As we come to the end we will test our application and deploy it to Meteor’s servers or to a customized production environment, so that we can show it off to the world!
Style and Approach
This is a step-by-step video tutorial, accompanied by a practical example project, which will guide you through the entire web application development process, covering every major aspect of the Meteor platform.
Getting Up and Running with Meteor
The Course Overview
Setting Up Meteor
An Introduction to Meteor Scaffolding
Creating Your First App
Enhancing Your App with Custom Packages
Content Creation and Adding Collections
Displaying Collections
Adding Content through User Input
Securing Your Application
Interacting with External Services
Creating Clean Web and REST Services
Introduction to Iron Router
Using Iron Router Templates
Creating REST Endpoints
Creating Responsive User Interfaces
Structuring Your UI with Masonry
Styling with Bootstrap
Additional Interactivity
Deploying Your Application
Deploying to Meteor.com
Deploying to a Custom Hostname
Deploying to a Custom Server
