Module: Application Design (Meteor), Part 1

Overview of the Meteor web application framework.

Learning Outcomes

You understand basic principles of Meteor: reactive variables, collections, publications, helpers, templates.
You can develop basic CRUD applications quickly and effectively.
You can implement authentication and authorization.
You can use extensions and templates: AutoForm, Twitter Bootstrap, Iron Router, meteor-application-template.

You can create local and global functions, and manipulate objects and arrays.
You can pass functions as parameters, and create anonymous functions.
You can use the Underscore Javascript library to simplify manipulation of data structures.

Why, what, how, and when you will learn about Meteor, Part 1

Screencast 7 min

Introduction to the Meteor Framework by Robert Dickert, a Meteor Community Engineer

Screencast 20 min

Introduction to Javascript for Meteor developers

Meteor official reference documentation

Optional

Install Meteor, work through the first tutorial, and do a simple WOD

25 Oct 09:00 PM

Create a simple polling app and extend it.

26 Oct 09:00 PM

Start building the Microscope app from Discover Meteor.

27 Oct 09:00 PM

Write a technical essay summarizing your initial experience with Meteor.

Technical Essay 29 Oct 09:00 PM

29 Oct 09:00 AM

This in-class WOD assessed your ability to build a simple Meteor application.

Discussion:

While the WOD required very little coding (Rx time was 7 minutes), it required a good understanding of the Insecure package and Meteor methods. Only four students completed the WOD within DNF time. To help everyone gain experience with the concept, I changed the WOD into a homework assignment and allowed submission up until 5pm. Everyone who attended class completed it.

29 Oct 09:00 PM

This assessment evaluated your ability to write a high quality technical essay summarizing your experience learning about Meteor.

Discussion:

Meteor is apparently a handful! It has sparked some very interesting essays this week!