SeattleJS: Get Back to basics with Meteor

Presentation from SeattleJS meetup March 2013: http://www.meetup.com/seattlejs/events/104167682/

Keynote file with animated GIFs:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26753468/Presentations/MeteorSeattle.key

Transcript

1. Get Back to Basics with Meteor {S:JS}
2. whoami
3. yuriy@dybskiy.com whoami
4. Front-End Engineer: playhaven.com unbounce.com fabricengine.com attachments.me psd2html.com kik.com yuriy@dybskiy.com whoami
5. Why Meteor?
6. by @paul_irish
7. how most JS frameworks work together
8. how most JS frameworks work together
9. some frameworks look fun and usable
10. some frameworks look fun and usable
13. Don’t be this guy
15. Hello World!
17. Install $ curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh
18. Install $ curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh Create $ meteor create seattle
19. Install $ curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh Create $ meteor create seattle Run $ meteor
20. Deploy
21. $ meteor deploy seattle.meteor.com Deploy
22. 7 Principles of Meteor
23. 1. Data on the Wire
24. 1. Data on the Wire Don't send HTML over the network. Send data and let the client decide how to render it.
25. 2. One Language
26. 2. One Language Write both the client and the server parts of your interface in JavaScript
27. 3. Database Everywhere
28. 3. Database Everywhere Use the same transparent API to access your database from the client or the server.
29. 4. Latency Compensation
30. 4. Latency Compensation On the client, use prefetching and model simulation to make it look like you have a zero-latency connection to the database
31. 5. Full Stack Reactivity
32. 5. Full Stack Reactivity Make realtime the default. All layers, from database to template, should make an event-driven interface available
33. 6. Embrace the Ecosystem
34. 6. Embrace the Ecosystem Meteor is open source and integrates, rather than replaces, existing open source tools and frameworks
35. 7. Simplicity Productivity =
36. 7. Simplicity Productivity The best way to make something seem simple is to have it actually be simple. Accomplish this through clean, classically beautiful APIs =
37. live coding madness
38. • http://meteor.com/examples/ • http://madewith.meteor.com/ • http://themeteorbook.com/ • http://roadmap.meteor.com/ Where to go from here:
39. dybskiy @ yuriy@dybskiy.com