Hello Meteor!

Meteor is a free and open source platform for building cross platform desktop and mobile JavaScript applications. It allows developers to build apps using fewer lines of code and familiar open source tools. Shrop talked about the Meteor Development Group, community, and exciting upcoming changes.

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1. A full-stack, open source platform for building web and mobile apps in JavaScript Hello Meteor!
2. Intro 2 Mark Shropshire (shrop) Mark brings 20 years of experience leading technical teams to his role as Mediacurrent’s Open Source Security Lead. He is a leader in tech community organizing, blogging, podcasting, and public speaking within the Drupal community. Mark is passionate about architecting systems to solve workflow problems and improve efficiencies using open source software. Mark is the maintainer of the Gaurdr Drupal security module suite. Over his 20 year career leading technical teams, Mark gained experience in IT roles at a large urban research university and nationally recognized, award winning graphic communications company. Open Source Security Lead @shrop /in/markshropshire shrop
3. About 3 Mediacurrent helps organizations build highly impactful, elegantly designed Drupal websites that achieve the strategic results they need. • Single-source provider • Specializing in Drupal since 2007 • Headquartered in Atlanta, GA • Team of 60+ Drupal Experts including development, design and strategy • Clients include: Large Enterprise and high-profile global brands
4. Hello Meteor! What’s Meteor? Demos What's Next for Meteor? 4 3 2 1 4 Why Meteor?
5. What’s Meteor? 1
6. 6 “Meteor is a full-stack JavaScript platform for developing modern web and mobile applications. Meteor includes a key set of technologies for building connected-client reactive applications, a build tool, and a curated set of packages from the Node.js and general JavaScript community.” https://docs.meteor.com What’s Meteor?
7. 7 The Open Source Meteor Platform • Tightly coupled development stack ◦ Angular/Blaze/React ◦ MongoDB ◦ Node.js ◦ Cordova ◦ more... • Library of packages • Command Line Tool What’s Meteor?
8. Who’s behind Meteor? 8 Meteor Development Group (MDG) • Funded startup ($20M in Series B) • Revenue through the Galaxy hosting platform • Launched the Meteor platform in January 2012 • Meteor platform is MIT-licensed What’s Meteor?
9. 2 Why Meteor?
10. 10 Build apps, not development stacks. Credit: Photo by Art Poskanzer on Flickr
11. 11 Why Meteor? One language, Javascript. “Meteor allows you to develop in one language, JavaScript, in all environments: application server, web browser, and mobile device.” Q A Hello Meteor! http://guide.meteor.com
12. 12 Why Meteor? Data on the wire. “Meteor uses data on the wire, meaning the server sends data, not HTML, and the client renders it.” Q A Hello Meteor! http://guide.meteor.com
13. 13 Why Meteor? Embraces the ecosystem. “Meteor embraces the ecosystem, bringing the best parts of the extremely active JavaScript community to you in a careful and considered way.” Q A Hello Meteor! http://guide.meteor.com
14. 14 Why Meteor? Full stack reactivity. “Meteor provides full stack reactivity, allowing your UI to seamlessly reflect the true state of the world with minimal development effort.” Q A Hello Meteor! http://guide.meteor.com
15. 15 DDP (Distributed Data Protocol) • Data on the wire • RPC from client to server • Client subscriptions to sets of documents • JSON objects/EJSON field specifications Why Meteor?
16. Traditional Web Applications 16 Why Meteor? Database Web Server Client Data Request Response
17. Meteor Web Applications 17 Why Meteor? MongoDB Meteor Server Client Data Initial Request Initial Package Data DB writes (async) Local DB write (sync)
18. 3 Demos
19. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Minime id quidem, inquam, alienum, multumque ad ea, quae. Install Meteor https://www.meteor.com/install 19 $ curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh
20. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Minime id quidem, inquam, alienum, multumque ad ea, quae. Create a new app https://www.meteor.com/learn 20 $ meteor create myApp Created a new Meteor app in 'myApp'. To run your new app: cd myApp meteor If you are new to Meteor, try some of the learning resources here: https://www.meteor.com/learn
21. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Minime id quidem, inquam, alienum, multumque ad ea, quae. Run a new app https://www.meteor.com/learn 21 $ cd myApp $ meteor [[[[[ ~/myApp ]]]]] => Started proxy. => Started MongoDB. => Started your app. => App running at: http://localhost:3000/
22. 22 Meteor Demonstrations • Meteor CLI • Meteor Shell • Todos example apps Demos
23. 4 What’s Next for Meteor?
24. Meteor Roadmap https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/Roadmap.md 24 Credit: Photo by Steve Snodgrass on Flickr
25. 25 • Javascript alliance with Facebook, Google, npm, and others • Support for Node 4 and beyond • MongoDB updates (3.2) • Full transition to npm • Better community contribution guidance and opportunities • Testing improvements, including native CI support • Data (SQL, REST, Performance) with Apollo • Strong integrations with Angular, React, and Blaze for the view layer What’s Next for Meteor? Meteor Roadmap
26. 26 “Apollo is an incrementally-adoptable data stack that manages the flow of data between clients and backends. Based on GraphQL, it gives you a principled, unified, and scalable API for developing modern apps on top of services.” http://www.apollostack.com What’s Next for Meteor?
27. @Mediacurrent Mediacurrent.com Thank you! slideshare.net/mediacurrent www.meteor.com docs.meteor.com