Application Design (Meteor), Part 4

Learning Outcomes

Design using Meteor Framework

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.

Readings

Meteor links by Benjamin Clark

Curated list of links: tutorials, code examples, deployment, DB, hosting, security, testing, books, blogs, videos, packages, podcasts, etc.

Meteor links by Uri Goldshtein

Curated list of links: Packages, debugging tools, testing, analytics, books, courses, files, routers, etc.

Meteor: The Official Guide

Prerelease version of the Meteor Guide

Meteor Cookbook

Compendium of Meteor best practices

Meteor files: what goes where

Making sense of Meteor’s client/server split

Constellation Developer Tools

Live inspect/manage subscriptions, console, session variables, templates, performance monitoring, tests

Meteor Blaze templates done right

How to implement template instance state

How to perform a template-level reactive join

Migrates subscriptions down to templates, and perform joins reactively

Deep dive into Webstorm: Meteor

Overview of Meteor support in IntelliJ IDEA

Screencast 7 min

meteor-example-uh-cas

Example app illustrating University of Hawaii CAS authentication

Architectural tips for developers using Blaze

Don’t abuse Session, smart vs. dumb components, pass your data context from the top down, stay away from this, encapsulate your components with CSS selectors.