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Build Applications with Meteor

Building a Shopping Cart

In this chapter, we will build a simple create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) application that will allow the user to add items to a shopping cart, remove them, update the quantity of each item, and track the total price of all added items. This is not, by any means, an e-commerce app but a brief overview of data handling with Meteor. For the frontend view layer, we will use React; also, we will take advantage of Meteor's reactive data package react-meteor-data to handle all the data changes and the dynamic rendering.

First, we will start with a very basic CRUD implementation and, moving forward, we'll refactor the app with the introduction of more concepts.

Here's what this chapter covers:

  • An overview of basic project structures and installation of the required packages
  • An overview of the application architecture
  • Inserting sample data in MongoDB
  • Implementation of...

Creating the project structure

Ctrl + Alt + T will open the terminal, change the directory to the desired location, create a shopping cart app with the meteor CLI, and install all the required packages.

Copy the following commands serially to create the app and install the packages:

>> meteor create shopping_cart
>> npm install
>> npm install react --save
>> npm install react-dom --save
>> meteor add react-meteor-data
>> npm install --save react react-addons-pure-render-mixin

Starting from the client side, let's delete all the default folders and create the following files and folders:

How to structure your app is completely up to you. For quick prototypes, you can use the defaults and just add more into the directories or, if you have a favorite open source project and you like its setup, you can copy the design from it. However, in real life, how the app is architected...

On the server

On the server-side, we have two files: index.js and insertData.js. There is also a private folder where we can define sample data that we can work with. Meteor will treat the private folder as an assets folder and will not bundle it with the rest of the execution code, which makes it a perfect place to have the test data.

In the private folder in file, products.json will have the following fields:

private/products.json

The fields of the Products collection are as follows:

id: This is the product ID.

title: This refers to a product title.

price: This is the price per unit.

inventory: This is the currently available product inventory in the store.

department: This refers to the department ID the product belongs to.

In the root of the application tree, we also have a shared folder where we can have modules used by both the client and the server.

In there, we define the two Collections...

Building the application components

Let's start building the application from top to bottom. The first two entries in the app are the index.html and index.js files. You can name them main.js or app.js or anything you want. I have a preference of naming index (starting with lowercase) as the first entry of any directory in my apps. That said, all React components should be capitalized when you import them; otherwise, React will thread them as HTML tags. To keep it intuitive, you can have the component names and their files' names capitalized.

In the index.html file, we can have our root DOM element:

<head>
  <title>Shopping Cart</title>
   </head>
 <body>
 <div id="root"></div>
</body>

We have a pretty simple HTML with only the <head> and <body> tags, and one <div> that will be the root of the parent top-level component, App.

In...

Adding router to the application

In our sample data, we have specified two departments: music and books. Currently, our App parent component renders the products and the cart into a single page.

In Single Page Applications (SPA), most of the time we want to give the user the best user experience by separating parts of the app into pages. The advantages of client site routing are that the user can navigate through different URLs without loading and reloading/refreshing the pages. This great user experience comes with a price. One of the challenges for client routing is the amount of code that the application initially needs to load for all pages. This problem can be solved by splitting the code by pages/routes and lazy loading only those parts of the code for the pages that a user visits.

For this example, we'll use the react-router library to manage the client-side routing:

In total, we have six...

Meteor methods

To make our app work with methods, we need to create tree methods and move all the edits from the client to the server.

Let's place all the methods in a folder called api on the root of the client. The concept of Methods is very similar to Ajax calls to the server:

On the server, we can define them when on the startup:

  Meteor.startup(() => {
….. Methods definition
});
 Meteor.methods({
cartInsert: function(product) {
      CartCollection.insert({
       'title' : product.title,
       'price' : product.price,
       'inventory' : product.inventory,
       'quantity': 1
 });
 },

In Meteor.methods, we can define all the methods.

Let's start by adding the product method in the cart.

The cartInsert method is the name of the method and, in the body function, we can just copy exactly the same code that we had on the client.

To...

Creating the project structure

Ctrl + Alt + T will open the terminal, change the directory to the desired location, create a shopping cart app with the meteor CLI, and install all the required packages.

Copy the following commands serially to create the app and install the packages:

>> meteor create shopping_cart
>> npm install
>> npm install react --save
>> npm install react-dom --save
>> meteor add react-meteor-data
>> npm install --save react react-addons-pure-render-mixin

Starting from the client side, let's delete all the default folders and create the following files and folders:

How to structure your app is completely up to you. For quick prototypes, you can use the defaults and just add more into the directories or, if you have a favorite open source project and you like its setup, you can copy the design from it. However, in real life, how the app is architected can depend on many factors. Often, we work on a mixture of new and legacy code and sometimes...

On the server

On the server-side, we have two files: index.js and insertData.js. There is also a private folder where we can define sample data that we can work with. Meteor will treat the private folder as an assets folder and will not bundle it with the rest of the execution code, which makes it a perfect place to have the test data.

In the private folder in file, products.json will have the following fields:

private/products.json

The fields of the Products collection are as follows:

id: This is the product ID.

title: This refers to a product title.

price: This is the price per unit.

inventory: This is the currently available product inventory in the store.

department: This refers to the department ID the product belongs to.

In the root of the application tree, we also have a shared folder where we can have modules used by both the client and the server.

In there, we define the two Collections that we will be using: Products and Cart:

export const ProductsCollection = new Mongo.Collection('products...
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Key benefits

  • Develop a set of real-world applications each exploring different features of Meteor
  • Make your app more appealing by adding reactivity and responsiveness to it
  • Work with the most powerful feature of Meteor—the “full stack reactivity”—through building real-time applications with many third party libraries

Description

This book starts with the basic installation and overview of the main components in Meteor. You’ll get hands-on multiple versatile applications covering a wide range of topics from adding a front-end views with the hottest rendering technology React to implementing a microservices oriented architecture.All the code is written with ES6/7 which is the latest significantly improved JavaScript language. We’ll also look at real-time data streaming, server to server data exchange, responsive styles on the front-end, full-text search functionality, and integration of many third-party libraries and APIs using npm. By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills to quickly prototype and even launch your next app idea in a matter of days.

Who is this book for?

If you are a developer who is looking forward to taking your application development skills with Meteor to next level by getting your hands-on different projects, this book is for you.

What you will learn

  • See how Meteor fits in the modern web application development by using its reactive data system
  • Make your front-end behave consistently across environments by implementing a predictable state container with Redux
  • Get familiar with React and overview of Angular 2
  • Add a map to your application with a real-time geolocation
  • Plugin into Meteor social media APIs like Twitter's streaming and Facebook's Messenger
  • Add search functionality from scratch to your existing app and data
  • Add responsiveness with Bootstrap 4 and Google's Material Design using Less and Sass
  • Distribute your data across machines and data centers by adding Apache Cassandra to your existing stack.
  • Learn how to scale your microservices with the high performant language neutral framework gRPC.
  • Learn how to query multiple data sources using GraphQL.
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Dobrin Ganev is a software developer with years of experience working in various development environments, ranging from finance to business process management. In recent years, he has focused on geospatial development and data analytics using languages such as JavaScript, Python, Scala, and R. He has extensive knowledge of open source geospatial and the ESRI platform. Currently, he focuses on big data and its applications across broad industries and sectors. Founded in 2015, chorStream Inc. (www.chorstream.com) is a software development firm centered around using big data and big data technologies to help clients work with and leverage large and diverse volumes of data. Dobrin, as a co-founder of chorStream Inc, has worked with an accomplished team of professionals to create and bring to market an application framework (similar to a web app builder) that end users can use to build custom and focused applications without needing any development skills. He is also skilled in Node.js, Meteor, front-end React, and Angular 1, 2, and 4.
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You can cancel any order within 1 hour of placing the order. Simply contact customercare@packt.com with your order details or payment transaction id. If your order has already started the shipment process, we will do our best to stop it. However, if it is already on the way to you then when you receive it, you can contact us at customercare@packt.com using the returns and refund process.

Please understand that Packt Publishing cannot provide refunds or cancel any order except for the cases described in our Return Policy (i.e. Packt Publishing agrees to replace your printed book because it arrives damaged or material defect in book), Packt Publishing will not accept returns.

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Return Policy:

We want you to be happy with your purchase from Packtpub.com. We will not hassle you with returning print books to us. If the print book you receive from us is incorrect, damaged, doesn't work or is unacceptably late, please contact Customer Relations Team on customercare@packt.com with the order number and issue details as explained below:

  1. If you ordered (eBook, Video or Print Book) incorrectly or accidentally, please contact Customer Relations Team on customercare@packt.com within one hour of placing the order and we will replace/refund you the item cost.
  2. Sadly, if your eBook or Video file is faulty or a fault occurs during the eBook or Video being made available to you, i.e. during download then you should contact Customer Relations Team within 14 days of purchase on customercare@packt.com who will be able to resolve this issue for you.
  3. You will have a choice of replacement or refund of the problem items.(damaged, defective or incorrect)
  4. Once Customer Care Team confirms that you will be refunded, you should receive the refund within 10 to 12 working days.
  5. If you are only requesting a refund of one book from a multiple order, then we will refund you the appropriate single item.
  6. Where the items were shipped under a free shipping offer, there will be no shipping costs to refund.

On the off chance your printed book arrives damaged, with book material defect, contact our Customer Relation Team on customercare@packt.com within 14 days of receipt of the book with appropriate evidence of damage and we will work with you to secure a replacement copy, if necessary. Please note that each printed book you order from us is individually made by Packt's professional book-printing partner which is on a print-on-demand basis.

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Currently, no tax is charged on the purchase of any print book (subject to change based on the laws and regulations). A localized VAT fee is charged only to our European and UK customers on eBooks, Video and subscriptions that they buy. GST is charged to Indian customers for eBooks and video purchases.

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You can pay with the following card types:

  1. Visa Debit
  2. Visa Credit
  3. MasterCard
  4. PayPal
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Shipping Details

USA:

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Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the US within 10-15 business days

Premium: Trackable Delivery to most addresses in the US within 3-8 business days

UK:

Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 7-9 business days.
Shipments are not trackable

Premium: Trackable delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 3-4 business days!
Add one extra business day for deliveries to Northern Ireland and Scottish Highlands and islands

EU:

Premium: Trackable delivery to most EU destinations within 4-9 business days.

Australia:

Economy: Can deliver to P. O. Boxes and private residences.
Trackable service with delivery to addresses in Australia only.
Delivery time ranges from 7-9 business days for VIC and 8-10 business days for Interstate metro
Delivery time is up to 15 business days for remote areas of WA, NT & QLD.

Premium: Delivery to addresses in Australia only
Trackable delivery to most P. O. Boxes and private residences in Australia within 4-5 days based on the distance to a destination following dispatch.

India:

Premium: Delivery to most Indian addresses within 5-6 business days

Rest of the World:

Premium: Countries in the American continent: Trackable delivery to most countries within 4-7 business days

Asia:

Premium: Delivery to most Asian addresses within 5-9 business days

Disclaimer:
All orders received before 5 PM U.K time would start printing from the next business day. So the estimated delivery times start from the next day as well. Orders received after 5 PM U.K time (in our internal systems) on a business day or anytime on the weekend will begin printing the second to next business day. For example, an order placed at 11 AM today will begin printing tomorrow, whereas an order placed at 9 PM tonight will begin printing the day after tomorrow.


Unfortunately, due to several restrictions, we are unable to ship to the following countries:

  1. Afghanistan
  2. American Samoa
  3. Belarus
  4. Brunei Darussalam
  5. Central African Republic
  6. The Democratic Republic of Congo
  7. Eritrea
  8. Guinea-bissau
  9. Iran
  10. Lebanon
  11. Libiya Arab Jamahriya
  12. Somalia
  13. Sudan
  14. Russian Federation
  15. Syrian Arab Republic
  16. Ukraine
  17. Venezuela