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Meteor Design Patterns

You're reading from   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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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987627
Length 184 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marcelo Reyna Marcelo Reyna
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Variable types


There are four types of variables that we need to understand to optimize our frontend workflow: session, persistent, file scope, and ReactiveVar. With these variables, we can build dynamic sites easily based on how the user is interacting with the view.

The session variables are variables that exist only during a session. A session begins whenever a user hits the site. These variables can be shared across routes and are reactive.

The persistent variables are variables that are stored in local storage so that they can be read even after the session closes.

The file scoped variables are variables that only exist within the scope of the file. These are generally not reactive.

The ReactiveVar variables can be scoped to the file or globally and are reactive. These variables do not persist the way session variables do.

Session variables

Some Meteor developers believe that session variables are overused. This is definitely true, if you are not managing them. For the most part, session...

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