Meteor Design Patterns: Accelerate your code writing skills with over twenty programming patterns that will make your code easier to maintain and scale

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Paperback Oct 2015 184 pages 1st Edition

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With the increasing interest in NodeJS web applications, a new framework, Meteor, has joined the ranks to simplify developer workflows. Meteor is one of the few open source frameworks that has received funding since its early development stages. It builds on ideas from existing frameworks and libraries, offering developers an easy way to develop a prototype app. At the same time, it gives them the tools and flexibility to build a fully fledged production app. Meteor is the weapon of choice for start-ups in today’s world. Meteor Design Patterns cuts through the jargon that most websites play with and gets to the point with simple solutions that will boost your development skills. We start off with a refresher on the basics of JavaScript programming such as templates, CoffeeScript, the Event Loop, and the Merge Box, amongst others. You then learn how to map real-world data and optimize the data’s publishers to output data with the least amount of work done by the server with some subscribe and publish patterns. Next, using front-end patterns, you will learn how to create maintainable and trackable forms, and make our site crawlable by any search engine. Following this, you will see how to optimize and secure the web application and maintain applications without breaking other features. Finally, you will learn how to deploy a secure production-ready application while learning to set up modulus, compose with Oplog tracking and SSL certificates, as well as error tracking with Kadira. Throughout the book, you will put your skills to practice and build an online shop from scratch. By the end of the book, you will have built a feature-rich online shop.

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This book is for developers who have already had an introductory course with Meteor. Basic knowledge of web development is recommended.

Product Details

Publication date, Length, Edition, Language, ISBN-13

Publication date : Oct 21, 2015

Length: 184 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781783987627

Vendor :

Meteor Development Group

Category :

Programming

Languages :

JavaScript

Concepts :

Design Patterns

Tools :

Meteor

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rsundar Nov 19, 2015

A very useful resource to take your meteor skills to the next level. Shows you how you can deploy your meteor applications in a production setting and use Kadira to enhance it's performance. All in all definitely recommended for someone who has a good grasp on the basics of the meteor framework.

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James Coles Oct 28, 2015

I had this book on preorder the moment I saw it on Amazon. It arrived and I read it within the day. I've got 4 books on Meteor in total and this one is by far the best one I have read so far. It's the story told from start to end. It's not a lose collection of recipes it as the cookbooks and it's not a half hearted approach to explain a few features or modules as other books on the market. This is a reference and a milestone book for meteor. If you want to get serious about this framework. Get this book.If I have one concern it is that the book is using coffeescript, stylus and jade, but it's simple enough to translate this to javascript, scss and html templates when needed.

Lars Lemos Dec 04, 2015

I come from a Java EE background so was looking for a fast paced recipes book.Found exactly what I needed.This book contains this most fundamentals instructions from how to set up your development environment from scratch to the introduction to the Front-end patterns and Application patterns, it also include testing Patterns and the most important how to deploy our app to the cloud services.Although being a small book, the author was able to compact all the necessary information for the best understanding of the reader.I advice to read this book along with some other reference book or documentation to make the most out of the content that the patterns describe.What fascinated me more in this book was the fact that I was not expecting to find instruction on how to put my app in production since by the name "Meteor Design Patterns", so you get more than you expected.The book is worth reading and future reference.

Kevin Nicholas Casault Nov 24, 2015

Let me start by saying I am not a Meteor expert just someone in the process of learning Meteor. Also just to be clear when you read design patterns in the title think reusable solutions or good practices not along the concept of the Gang of 4 design patterns. I feel like the advice in the beginning of the book about using JavaScript (Coffee) and CSS (Stylus) preprocessors and HTML (Jade) template engines could probably be used with any modern JavaScript framework. Probably good advice in general. From Chapter 2 on the book is much more Meteor specific in the solutions it presents. The different types of variables available to Meteor applications was a good discussion for example. As someone learning Meteor, many of the patterns were very helpful as I think about building Meteor applications and what needs to be done to make a Meteor application search engine friendly.The product order/shopping cart example used through out the book is helpful and easy to understand as the features are added to it through out the book.The book has been a good learning tool and I can see it being a good tool to refer to in the future as well. The design patterns presented should be helpful even as Meteor matures and changes of time.There are also many atmosphere packages discussed and recommended in the book to help solve specific problem this is a nice add because searching through packages can be a time consuming.

eskadah Nov 20, 2015

At the time of writing, this book is one of the few advanced level books on Meteor that are available on the market. This book guides the reader on a number of best practices for real world meteor development.Furthermore, the author of the book has a number of open source meteor packages that I have found very useful in my own work. So he definitely knows what he is talking about. For instance, the author does a good jobexplaining the importance of reactive joins in Meteor projects, the author illustrates the problem from a UI /UX perspective but ultimately breaks down the technical DDP aspects of the problem and mostimportantly provides practical solutions to implementing reactive joins in Meteor. I am giving this book 4 stars for a number of reasons. Given the fact that the code samples are in CoffeeScript,the editing could be better. Its a bit of a chore to read and understand a code sample given the liberal use of tabs, lack of commas and absent parentheses. This point brings me to my second gripe with the book.The book is very opinionated. The author tries to mitigate this in the first chapter but one chapter to introduce Coffeescript, Jade and Stylus is not enough. Readers that are not already versed in these technologies will not be able to gain much from this book.All in all, its a very good intermediate/advanced level book on Meteor. Beginners to the Meteor framework should probably look elsewhere for an introduction but they should definitely come back once they are looking for more advanced knowledge

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