Meteor - A better way to build apps

An introduction to Meteor.js

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1. Meteor A better way to build apps
2. I am... Miltos Stamos Computer Science Tutor www.meteorpoint.com www.cremala.com miltosstamos mstamos
3. Cremala - My first Meteor app About the Game • 2000 words • Two game types ◦ Normal ◦ Duels • 7 Different Languages • Players can chat • Wed and Android app • Facebook/Twitter integration Tools • Javascript • Meteor • Bootstrap • Less • HTML5 Canvas • Git
4. My knowledge before Cremala Tools Rate of Knowledge (1-10) Javascript Meteor Bootstrap Less HTML5 Canvas Git Cremala was built in 4 months working part time!!! 2 0 0 0 4 0
5. What is it? Full-stack Javascript platform for building web and mobile apps
6. A full-stack platform • Node back end • Front end framework • Real-time communications protocol • Multiplatform build system • Browser • iOS (Cordova) • Android (Cordova)
7. Modern Apps • Modern apps ◦ Facebook ◦ Gmail ◦ Twitter ◦ Google docs • Live updates • Collaboration • Mobile
8. Without Meteor • Want to develop a modern app? • What could you use for it? • A possible solution to develop a modern app is MEAN ◦ MongoDB ◦ Express ◦ Angular ◦ Node
9. What Meteor Achieve • Focus on your app’s unique features instead of wrangling network code, websockets, etc • Meteor’s Goal: Modern apps quality without big company’s money
10. Meteor is built for modern apps
11. MEAN vs Meteor
12. Live Code Session You can find this simple chat app in github: https://github.com/mstamos/chatAppML
13. Why use Meteor? • Easy to learn • Developing with just one language • Real-time by default • Mobile support • Smart packages • Extremely supportive community
14. Want to learn? •Meteor.com http://meteor.com/learn •Official Meteor tutorial http://meteor.com/install •Discover Meteor http://book.discovermeteor.com/ •EventedMind https://www.eventedmind.com/ •Stack Overflow, tagged Meteor •Meteor Point http://www.meteorpoint.com
15. Questions?