Module: Application Design (Meteor), Part 4

Selected readings and example code to support Meteor development.

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: Semantic UI, Flow Router, meteor-application-template, meteor-example-form.

Readings

BlazeJS documentation

Reference Guide to the Blaze template system

meteor-example-uh-cas

Example app illustrating University of Hawaii CAS authentication

Chrome extension to monitor DDP traffic

See what DDP is doing (within Chrome Developer Tools)

meteor-rest-example

Retrieving data from a REST API using Meteor

Meteor + Chart.js

How to reactively update a chart using Meteor and chart.js

Introduction to publications and subscriptions in Meteor

How Meteor controls database replication from server to client

Screencast 13 min

Meteor Tutorial: Filtering data with publish and subscribe

How to use publications and subscriptions

Introduction to methods in Meteor

How Meteor controls database manipulation

Screencast 10 min

Meteor Tutorial: Security with methods

How to control database access using Meteor methods

Template state communication in Meteor

How to share state between page components in Meteor

Screencast 18 min

Experiential Learning

Digits, Part 7

Support multiple users

Digits, Part 8

Learn to use Meteor methods