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Chapter 2. Building HTML Templates

After we successfully installed Meteor and set up our folder structure, we can now start building the basic templates for our blog.

In this chapter, we will learn how templates are built. We will see how to display data and how some parts can be altered using helper functions. We will take a look on adding events, using conditions, and understanding data contexts, all in templates.

The following is an overview of what will be covered in this chapter:

  • The basic template structure
  • Displaying data
  • Writing template helper functions
  • Using conditions in templates
  • Data contexts and how those can be set
  • Nesting templates and data context inheritance
  • Adding events
  • Building block helpers

    Note

    If you jump right into this chapter without setting up the folder structure in the Chapter 1, Getting Started with Meteor, download the previous chapter's code examples from either the book's web page at https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/support/17713 or from the...

Writing templates in Meteor

Normally when we build websites, we build the complete HTML on the server side. This was quite straightforward; every page is built on the server, then it is sent to the client, and at last JavaScript added some additional animation or dynamic behavior to it.

This is not so in single-page apps, where every page needs to be already in the client's browser so that it can be shown at will. Meteor solves this problem by providing templates that exists in JavaScript and can be placed in the DOM at some point. These templates can have nested templates, allowing for an easy way to reuse and structure an app's HTML layout.

Since Meteor is so flexible in terms of folder and file structure, any *.html page can contain a template and will be parsed during Meteor's build process. This allows us to put all templates in the my-meteor-blog/client/templates folder, which we created in the Chapter 1, Getting Started with Meteor. This folder structure is chosen as...

Building the basic templates

Now, let's add the basic templates to our blog by creating a file called layout.html in the my-meteor-blog/client/templates folder. This template will serve as the wrapper template for our blog layout. To build the basic templates, perform the following steps:

  1. Add the following lines of code to layout.html, which we just created:
    <template name="layout">
  <header>
    <div class="container">
      <h1>My Meteor Single Page App</h1>
      <ul>
        <li>
          <a href="/">Home</a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <a href="/about">About</a>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </header>

  <div class="container">
    <main>
    </main>
  </div>
</template>
  2. Next, we will create the home page template, which will later list all our blogs posts. In the same templates folder...

Adding templates and partials

To show the home template in the app, we need to open index.html, which we created earlier, and perform the following steps:

  1. We replace Hello World with the following template inclusion helper:
    {{> layout}}
  2. If we go back to our browser now, we see that the text is gone and the layout template, which we created earlier, has appeared with its header and menu.
  3. To complete the page, we need to show the home template in the layout template. We do this by simply adding another template inclusion helper to the main section of the layout template in our layout.html file, as follows:
    <main>
  {{> home}}
</main>
  4. If we go back to the browser, we should see the following screenshot:
    Adding templates and partials

If we would now switch {{> home}} for {{> about}}, we would see our about template instead.

Displaying data with template helpers

Each template can have functions, which are called template helpers, and they can be used inside the template and child templates.

In addition to our custom helper functions, there are three callback functions that are called when the template is created, rendered, and destroyed. To display data with template helpers, perform the following steps:

  1. To see the three callback functions in action, let's create a file called home.js and save it to our my-meteor-blog/client/templates/ folder with the following code snippet:
    Template.home.created = function(){
  console.log('Created the home template');
};
Template.home.rendered = function(){
  console.log('Rendered the home template');
};

Template.home.destroyed = function(){
  console.log('Destroyed the home template');
};

    If we now open the console of our browser, we will see the first two callbacks are being fired. The last one will only fire if we dynamically remove the...

Setting the data context for a template

Now that we've seen how we can display data using a helper, let's see how we can set the whole data context of a template:

  1. For the next examples, we will create a file called examples.html in our my-meteor-blog/client/templates folder and add the following code snippet:
    <template name="contextExample">
  <p>{{someText}}</p>
</template>
  2. Now that we have our contextExample template, we can add it to our home template by passing some data as follows:
    {{> contextExample someText="I was set in the parent template's helper, as an argument."}}

    This will show the text in the contextExample template because we were displaying it using {{someText}}.

    Tip

    Remember that filenames don't really matter as Meteor is collecting and concatenating them anyway; however, the template name matters since we use this to reference templates.

    Setting the context in HTML is not very dynamic, as it is hardcoded. To be...

Writing templates in Meteor

Normally when we build websites, we build the complete HTML on the server side. This was quite straightforward; every page is built on the server, then it is sent to the client, and at last JavaScript added some additional animation or dynamic behavior to it.

This is not so in single-page apps, where every page needs to be already in the client's browser so that it can be shown at will. Meteor solves this problem by providing templates that exists in JavaScript and can be placed in the DOM at some point. These templates can have nested templates, allowing for an easy way to reuse and structure an app's HTML layout.

Since Meteor is so flexible in terms of folder and file structure, any *.html page can contain a template and will be parsed during Meteor's build process. This allows us to put all templates in the my-meteor-blog/client/templates folder, which we created in the Chapter 1, Getting Started with Meteor. This folder structure is chosen as it helps us organizing...

Building the basic templates

Now, let's add the basic templates to our blog by creating a file called layout.html in the my-meteor-blog/client/templates folder. This template will serve as the wrapper template for our blog layout. To build the basic templates, perform the following steps:

  1. Add the following lines of code to layout.html, which we just created:

    <template name="layout">
  <header>
    <div class="container">
      <h1>My Meteor Single Page App</h1>
      <ul>
        <li>
          <a href="/">Home</a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <a href="/about">About</a>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </header>

  <div class="container">
    <main>
    </main>
  </div>
</template>

  2. Next, we will create the home page template, which will later list all our blogs posts. In the same templates folder as layout.html, we will create a file named home.html...

Adding templates and partials

To show the home template in the app, we need to open index.html, which we created earlier, and perform the following steps:

  1. We replace Hello World with the following template inclusion helper:

    {{> layout}}

  2. If we go back to our browser now, we see that the text is gone and the layout template, which we created earlier, has appeared with its header and menu.

  3. To complete the page, we need to show the home template in the layout template. We do this by simply adding another template inclusion helper to the main section of the layout template in our layout.html file, as follows:

    <main>
  {{> home}}
</main>

  4. If we go back to the browser, we should see the following screenshot:

If we would now switch {{> home}} for {{> about}}, we would see our about template instead.

Displaying data with template helpers

Each template can have functions, which are called template helpers, and they can be used inside the template and child templates.

In addition to our custom helper functions, there are three callback functions that are called when the template is created, rendered, and destroyed. To display data with template helpers, perform the following steps:

  1. To see the three callback functions in action, let's create a file called home.js and save it to our my-meteor-blog/client/templates/ folder with the following code snippet:

    Template.home.created = function(){
  console.log('Created the home template');
};
Template.home.rendered = function(){
  console.log('Rendered the home template');
};

Template.home.destroyed = function(){
  console.log('Destroyed the home template');
};

    If we now open the console of our browser, we will see the first two callbacks are being fired. The last one will only fire if we dynamically remove the template.

  2. To display data in the home...

Setting the data context for a template

Now that we've seen how we can display data using a helper, let's see how we can set the whole data context of a template:

  1. For the next examples, we will create a file called examples.html in our my-meteor-blog/client/templates folder and add the following code snippet:

    <template name="contextExample">
  <p>{{someText}}</p>
</template>

  2. Now that we have our contextExample template, we can add it to our home template by passing some data as follows:

    {{> contextExample someText="I was set in the parent template's helper, as an argument."}}

    This will show the text in the contextExample template because we were displaying it using {{someText}}.

    Tip

    Remember that filenames don't really matter as Meteor is collecting and concatenating them anyway; however, the template name matters since we use this to reference templates.

    Setting the context in HTML is not very dynamic, as it is hardcoded. To be able to dynamically change the context,...

"this" in template helpers and template callbacks

In Meteor, this in template helpers is used differently in template callbacks such as created(), rendered(), and destroyed().

As already mentioned, templates have three callback functions that are fired in different states of the template:

  • created: This fires when the template gets initiated but is not yet in the DOM

  • rendered: This fires when the template and all its sub templates are attached to the DOM

  • destroyed: This fires when the template is removed from the DOM and before the instance of the template gets destroyed

In these callback functions, this refers to the current template instance. The instance object can access the templates DOM and comes with the following methods:

  • this.$(selectorString): This method finds all elements that match selectorString and returns a jQuery object from those elements.

  • this.findAll(selectorString): This method finds all elements that match selectorString, but returns the plain DOM elements.

  • this.find(selectorString...

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If you are a web developer with basic knowledge of JavaScript and want to take on Web 2.0, build real-time applications, or simply want to write a complete application using only JavaScript and HTML/CSS, this is the book for you. This book is based on Meteor 1.0.

Who is this book for?

If you are a web developer with basic knowledge of JavaScript and want to take on Web 2.0, build real-time applications, or simply want to write a complete application using only JavaScript and HTML/CSS, this is the book for you.

What you will learn

  • Create reactive templates that update themselves when data changes
  • Use database queries on the client and the server to retrieve, sort, and manipulate datasets
  • Understand data synchronization using a publication/subscription model and make API calls a thing of the past
  • Discover how you can secure your data flow on the server side to keep confidential data secret
  • Add routing to a singlepage application and make it appear like a real website
  • Build your own advanced reactive objects and make everything rerun when you want
  • Make your own Meteor packages and learn how to make them public
  • Unit test your packages and Meteor applications

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1. Getting Started with Meteor Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1. Getting Started with Meteor
The full-stack framework of Meteor
Meteor's requirements
Installing Meteor
Creating our first app
Adding basic packages
Variable scopes
Meteor's folder conventions and loading order
Meteor's command-line tool
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2. Building HTML Templates
Writing templates in Meteor
Building the basic templates
Adding templates and partials
Displaying data with template helpers
Setting the data context for a template
"this" in template helpers and template callbacks
Adding events
Block helpers
Listing posts
Spacebars syntax
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3. Storing Data and Handling Collections
Meteor and databases
Setting up a collection
Adding post examples
Querying a collection
Updating a collection
Database everywhere
Differences between client and server collections
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4. Controlling the Data Flow
Syncing data – the current Web versus the new Web
Removing the autopublish package
Publishing data
Publishing only parts of data
Publishing specific fields
Lazy loading posts
Switching subscriptions
Some notes on data publishing
Summary
5. Making Our App Versatile with Routing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Making Our App Versatile with Routing
Adding the iron:router package
Setting up the router
Switching to a layout template
Adding another route
Moving the posts subscription to the Home route
Setting up the post route
Changing the website's title
Summary
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6. Keeping States with Sessions
Meteor's session object
Using sessions in template helpers
Rerunning functions reactively
Using autorun in a template
The reactive session object
Summary
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7. Users and Permissions
Meteor's accounts packages
Adding the accounts packages
Adding admin functionality to our templates
Creating the template to edit posts
Creating the admin user
Creating routes for the admin
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8. Security with the Allow and Deny Rules
Adding a function to generate slugs
Creating a new post
Editing posts
Restricting database updates
Adding a deny rule
Adding posts using a method call
Calling the method
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9. Advanced Reactivity
Reactive programming
Building a simple reactive object
Creating an advanced timer object
Reactive computations
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10. Deploying Our App
Deploying on meteor.com
Deploying on other servers
Outlook
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11. Building Our Own Package
The structure of a package
Creating our own package
Releasing our package to the public
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12. Testing in Meteor
Types of tests
Testing packages
Testing our meteor app
Acceptance tests
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List of Meteor's command-line tool commands
The iron:router hooks
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very good intro to meteor. if you know nodejs, you can start building simple apps with meteor now. with this book, you will not be able to write a facebook, but you can gain a lot of foundamental 'ideas'.the author does have a follow-up tutorial series on the internet, which further extends your understanding of meteor. after that, plus if you know bootstrap, you will then be able to build some interesting stuff.highly recommend!
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This is a great book for "amateur beginners" and "advanced beginners" alike.What I mean "amateur beginners" are programmers that know some JavaScript and have seen and played around with Node. "Advanced beginners" are programmers that already know a JavaScript framework on the front-end and also a Node framework on the back-end and have had a lot of experience with JavaScript.For the "amateur beginners" you get a book that explains things in simple, clear terms and has just enough depth of explanation that you can understand why Meteor is so cool. For "advanced beginners" you get a great discussion of the different options for some trickier aspects of Meteor like deployment and under-the-hood Meteor reactivity.I have read several Meteor books and lots and lots of articles about Meteor and I feel that this book gives a great overview of the Meteor platform. I think my favorite part of the book is that it acknowledges where things have more depth than what can fit in the book, which gave me a bunch of direction on where to focus my Google searches to understand Meteor on a more advanced level.Overall, great book if you want to learn Meteor from scratch.
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I would recommend this to anyone looking for a gentle easy to follow introduction to Meteor. It pretty much does what other books do by leading you through how to create a blog (accounts, permissions, routing etc).The sections on packaging and deployment are clear to understand.Chapter 12 on testing with Velocity is well worth the money spent on the book. This is a great new feature of Meteor which is explained well in the book.It is up to date with the latest version of Meteor.
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Bharat C. Ruparel May 17, 2015
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I am working through the book line-by-line and approximate half-way through the book (Chapter 6). I do not want to wait anymore to write this review since this book may be just what you need if you have any interest in learning meteor. Fabian writes in a very clear and simple style and obviously knows Meteor well.My main motivation in writing the review here is two-fold:1. I read reviews before purchasing any books or materials and more often than not, have benefitted from them. So I want to return the favor by giving an enthusiastic thumbs-up for anyone wanting to learn Meteor.2. I am hoping that Fabian follows up this excellent effort by a more intermediate/advanced text where he addresses the issues that a developer has to tackle in creating real-life production applications. While this book does its job very well in explaining the basics using a running blog example, the same style could be used to write a more advanced text that deals with real-life issues. Almost always that involves using third-party packages, so a demonstration of how to use them in the context of an application would be very useful.I am an experienced Rails developer and am looking to Meteor to make my applications more responsive (or shall we say reactive?) leading to a better user experience. Also, another obvious benefit is the scalability since clients can do more computations and far more important, rendering of pages. As Javascript runtimes in the browsers (also in the servers, e.g. node.js) improve rapidly, it makes no sense to do most of the page rendering on the server. It should be the client.I have gone through other texts on Meteor as well as the official tutorial. This book by far, is the clearest. Fabian, Keep up the great work and follow through on my suggestion :) I will buy a book written by you anytime if the topic is of interest to me as it is here.
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Asit Dhal Jan 05, 2016
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This book is my first exposure towards Meteor. This book gives excellent beginning towards Meteor.
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Fabian Vogelsteller became interested in web technologies at the age of 14. He developed a skill set ranging from graphic design to coding PHP to Python, ActionScript, Objective C, HTML, and CSS, and fell in love with JavaScript. He has worked as a freelance web developer for over 14 years and is the creator of the open source feindura Flat File CMS. Fabian is a strong advocate of open source software and has built and contributed to many open source libraries and projects. In recent years, Meteor has become his passion and is his primary tool of choice. He currently works for start-ups in Berlin, extending his skills to web development for larger applications.
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