Meteor Tutorial

Bring your ideas to life with Meteor

Matthew Platts

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Overview
• • 1.1 A quick note from the author
  • 1.2 Meteor from above
  • 1.3 The Seven Principles
  • 1.4 Javascript Everywhere
  • 1.5 Preprocessing and Minification
  • 1.6 Collections and Templating
  • 1.7 Data syncing
  • 1.8 Two Databases
• Chapter 2 A Simple App (part 1)
• • 2.1 Core resources
  • 2.2 Setup and Structure
  • • 2.2.1 foosboom-meteor.html (Listing 2.1)
    • 2.2.2 foosboom-meteor.js (Listing 2.2)
    • 2.2.3 foosboom-meteor.css (Listing 2.3)
    • 2.2.4 Run your app
  • 2.3 Structuring your app
  • 2.4 Templates and Spacebars
  • • 2.4.1 main.html
    • 2.4.2 A Template
    • 2.4.3 Rendering Data with Helpers
  • 2.5 Collections
  • • 2.5.1 MongoDB
    • 2.5.2 What is a collection?
    • 2.5.3 Mongo vs Minimongo
    • 2.5.4 Our first collection
    • 2.5.5 Loading our collection into our template
    • 2.5.6 Mongol
    • 2.5.7 Seed data
    • 2.5.8 Publishing data
  • 2.6 CRUD Teams
  • • 2.6.1 Reactivity
    • 2.6.2 Session
    • 2.6.3 Events
• Chapter 3 A Simple App (part 2)
• • 3.1 Database design
  • • 3.1.1 Normalization vs Denormalization
    • 3.1.2 Design your schema to suit your app’s data access patterns
    • 3.1.3 Our database design options
  • 3.2 CRUD Games
  • • 3.2.1 Games collection
    • 3.2.2 Meteor Mongo
    • 3.2.3 Robomongo
    • 3.2.4 Publishing our games
    • 3.2.5 Subscribing to our games
    • 3.2.6 Showing our games
    • 3.2.7 Adding games
    • 3.2.8 Editing and deleting games
    • 3.2.9 The games cache
    • 3.2.10 Team name integrity
  • 3.3 Accounts
  • • 3.3.1 Accounts packages
    • 3.3.2 Permissions
    • 3.3.3 Modifying our teams to work with users
    • 3.3.4 Modifying our games to work with users
• Chapter 4 A Simple App (part 3)
• • 4.1 Methods
  • • 4.1.1 A remote function
    • 4.1.2 Throwing and Catching
    • 4.1.3 Meteor.Error
    • 4.1.4 Typechecking
    • 4.1.5 Is the user signed in?
    • 4.1.6 Meteor.call from the client
    • 4.1.7 A second method
  • 4.2 Routes
  • • 4.2.1 Layout
    • 4.2.2 Teams route
    • 4.2.3 Menu
    • 4.2.4 Loading
    • 4.2.5 Force login
  • 4.3 Collection2 Package
  • • 4.3.1 The world of community packages
    • 4.3.2 Data integrity
    • 4.3.3 Adding our first schema
    • 4.3.4 Unique title
    • 4.3.5 Maximum length
    • 4.3.6 updatedAt, createdAt
    • 4.3.7 Games schema