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Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

You're reading from   Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor Build real-time single page apps at lightning speed using the most powerful full-stack JavaScript framework around

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783988129
Length 198 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Meteor 2. Building HTML Templates FREE CHAPTER 3. Storing Data and Handling Collections 4. Controlling the Data Flow 5. Making Our App Versatile with Routing 6. Keeping States with Sessions 7. Users and Permissions 8. Security with the Allow and Deny Rules 9. Advanced Reactivity 10. Deploying Our App 11. Building Our Own Package 12. Testing in Meteor A. Appendix Index

Creating an advanced timer object


The previous example was a simple demonstration of a custom reactive object. To make it more useful, it is better to create a separate object that hides the Tracker.Dependency functions and adds additional functionality.

Meteor's reactivity and dependency tracking allows us to create dependencies even when the depend() function is called from inside another function. This dependency chain allows more complex reactive objects.

In the next example, we will take our timer object and add a start and stop function to it. Additionally, we will also make it possible to choose a time interval at which the timer will rerun:

  1. First, let's remove the previous code examples from the main.js and template-helpers.js files, which we added before, and create a new file named ReactiveTimer.js inside my-meteor-blog/client with the following content:

    ReactiveTimer = (function () {
    
        // Constructor
        function ReactiveTimer() {
            this._dependency = new Tracker.Dependency...
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