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Your First Meteor Application: A Complete Beginner's Guide to the Meteor JavaScript Framework
This edition has been revised for version 1.3 of Meteor.
A Complete Beginner’s Guide to the Meteor JavaScript FrameworkThere’s a lot to love about the Meteor JavaScript framework. It’s powerful enough to create incredible, real-time web applications with less code and less repetition, but it’s also simple enough that even people with just a basic grasp of JavaScript can make significant process in a short amount of time.
When I first came across Meteor though, the current training materials
Unnecessarily complicated considering how simple Meteor development can be.Overly bloated with details that didn’t strictly relate to working with Meteor itself.Better suited for experienced developers, rather than those just getting started.Combined with the fact that I’d grown up reading bad books about programming, I asked “Why don’t I write the book about Meteor that I’d want to read?”
Less than a year later, here I am with Your First Meteor A Complete Beginner’s Guide to the Meteor JavaScript Framework — a highly-rated book about Meteor that is by far the best resource for getting started with the framework in a matter of hours.
Think I’m exaggerating? Download the sample. You’ll soon see the truth.
How To Build Real-Time Web ApplicationsThis book isn’t for everyone. It’s precisely designed for beginning developers. This means every chapter and every example is designed for people who
A basic understanding of JavaScriptA very basic understanding of databases.If you’re mostly a front-end developer, or maybe you’ve just dabbled in programming languages like PHP or Ruby but have never made significant progress, then this book is for you. It doesn’t just regurgitate the official documentation for Meteor, and it doesn’t read like most technical books.
Everything You Need To Get Started with MeteorDespite being a relatively short book, Your First Meteor Application
A complete, step-by-step introduction to installing Meteor and getting started with the command line.Beginner-focused tips to get developers started with the framework as quickly as possible.Exercises at the end of every chapter to help test your knowledge and deepen your understanding of Meteor.Project-based instruction that’s designed to give you insight into real-world development.Plenty of images, code samples, and chapter summaries to help you grasp everything you read.You’ll learn how
Develop with Meteor on any platform.Operate your computer with the command line.Manage a MongoDB database within a Meteor application.Design real-time interfaces with the use of templates.Hook into browser events like button clicks and form submissions.Update data inside a database with clever MongoDB functions.Create a complete user accounts system in a matter of minutes.Secure your application to make it ready for the world.Deploy your application to the web so people can start using it.
A Complete Beginner’s Guide to the Meteor JavaScript FrameworkThere’s a lot to love about the Meteor JavaScript framework. It’s powerful enough to create incredible, real-time web applications with less code and less repetition, but it’s also simple enough that even people with just a basic grasp of JavaScript can make significant process in a short amount of time.
When I first came across Meteor though, the current training materials
Unnecessarily complicated considering how simple Meteor development can be.Overly bloated with details that didn’t strictly relate to working with Meteor itself.Better suited for experienced developers, rather than those just getting started.Combined with the fact that I’d grown up reading bad books about programming, I asked “Why don’t I write the book about Meteor that I’d want to read?”
Less than a year later, here I am with Your First Meteor A Complete Beginner’s Guide to the Meteor JavaScript Framework — a highly-rated book about Meteor that is by far the best resource for getting started with the framework in a matter of hours.
Think I’m exaggerating? Download the sample. You’ll soon see the truth.
How To Build Real-Time Web ApplicationsThis book isn’t for everyone. It’s precisely designed for beginning developers. This means every chapter and every example is designed for people who
A basic understanding of JavaScriptA very basic understanding of databases.If you’re mostly a front-end developer, or maybe you’ve just dabbled in programming languages like PHP or Ruby but have never made significant progress, then this book is for you. It doesn’t just regurgitate the official documentation for Meteor, and it doesn’t read like most technical books.
Everything You Need To Get Started with MeteorDespite being a relatively short book, Your First Meteor Application
A complete, step-by-step introduction to installing Meteor and getting started with the command line.Beginner-focused tips to get developers started with the framework as quickly as possible.Exercises at the end of every chapter to help test your knowledge and deepen your understanding of Meteor.Project-based instruction that’s designed to give you insight into real-world development.Plenty of images, code samples, and chapter summaries to help you grasp everything you read.You’ll learn how
Develop with Meteor on any platform.Operate your computer with the command line.Manage a MongoDB database within a Meteor application.Design real-time interfaces with the use of templates.Hook into browser events like button clicks and form submissions.Update data inside a database with clever MongoDB functions.Create a complete user accounts system in a matter of minutes.Secure your application to make it ready for the world.Deploy your application to the web so people can start using it.
146 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 30, 2014
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About the author
David Turnbull
173 books5 followersDavid Turnbull is a member of the Clockhouse London group of genre writers. He writes mainly short fiction and has had numerous short stories published in magazines and anthologies. His stories have previously been featured at Liars League London events and read at other live events such as Solstice Shorts and Virtual Futures. His near future dystopian novella, HUSks, is currently on release.
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September 26, 2014
Great introduction to the Meteor.js framework.
Remains pretty basic, but that 's the whole point of the book, definitely helps you grap the core concepts of the technology.
Remains pretty basic, but that 's the whole point of the book, definitely helps you grap the core concepts of the technology.
January 22, 2016
This answered a lot of my questions I am glad I took the time to read it. I would recommend it to grasp how all the features fall together to any meteor beginner :))
July 29, 2016
A light , though helpful introduction
August 16, 2022
3.5
I didn't read this I read "Tutor Me Not" on webtoon with 9 chapters
I didn't read this I read "Tutor Me Not" on webtoon with 9 chapters
April 19, 2016
After months of reading and thinking about different technologies to build out my first web app I decided on Meteor with very little experience to base that decision on. Why? Because it just seems easiest. I'm not trying to get a job as a front, backend or full stack web dev engineer, I'm simply trying to build stuff. Having said that, I went into this book with the following introduction to web development:
-Udemy course on HTML/CSS
-Worked through 'A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript' by Mark Myers
VERY minimal introduction and I would recommend those interested in Meteor to get at least this level of context before starting to mess with Meteor.
Even with my very limited experience I found the book very clear and easy to follow. I spent a couple weeks doing a chapter a day and in the end had built the app and was even able to add a few features beyond what the author shares. For people with more time, I'm sure you can get through this in a few days. In the end, this book delivered exactly what I was looking for:
-A great idea of the benefits of Meteor: Easy to set up, everything works together, everything is in Javascript, easy to debug in browser, easy to add very functional packages.
-Basic understanding of how a simple Meteor project is set up and how a more complex one might look
-A light introduction to concepts that I had no previous experience with such as MongoDB, collections, templates, helper functions, server side methods.
-Confidence building from creating a functional web application. Extra challenges at end of chapter are HIGHLY recommended to really grasp learning objectives of Chapter and really add confidence as there is no hand holding when you do these.
All in all, a fantastic introduction, that has made me anxious to learn more and enabled me to at least start messing around and creating things on my own. The next step in my Learning Curve will be 'Discover Meteor' which I am looking forward to.
-Udemy course on HTML/CSS
-Worked through 'A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript' by Mark Myers
VERY minimal introduction and I would recommend those interested in Meteor to get at least this level of context before starting to mess with Meteor.
Even with my very limited experience I found the book very clear and easy to follow. I spent a couple weeks doing a chapter a day and in the end had built the app and was even able to add a few features beyond what the author shares. For people with more time, I'm sure you can get through this in a few days. In the end, this book delivered exactly what I was looking for:
-A great idea of the benefits of Meteor: Easy to set up, everything works together, everything is in Javascript, easy to debug in browser, easy to add very functional packages.
-Basic understanding of how a simple Meteor project is set up and how a more complex one might look
-A light introduction to concepts that I had no previous experience with such as MongoDB, collections, templates, helper functions, server side methods.
-Confidence building from creating a functional web application. Extra challenges at end of chapter are HIGHLY recommended to really grasp learning objectives of Chapter and really add confidence as there is no hand holding when you do these.
All in all, a fantastic introduction, that has made me anxious to learn more and enabled me to at least start messing around and creating things on my own. The next step in my Learning Curve will be 'Discover Meteor' which I am looking forward to.
October 20, 2016
Although it really feels fundamental for experienced developer, but developer from other background may find this book useful. I come from a Rails background, the concept of client/server using the same codebase and pub/sub is new to me and this book provided some simple yet very useful information, not to get too overwhelmed with tons of tutorials online.
April 19, 2015
Excelent book for meteor beginners, because this book is short, you will get the essentials very quickly. Well written for beginner developers but also for more advanced devs. I enjoyed this book. And what is really awesome is that the author keeps updating it as meteor evolves.
January 30, 2015
very good book and easy to understand the basics of Meteor.. and I hope that in the future the author publish more books about Meteor.
July 26, 2017
Learn a lot :)
April 26, 2016
Yes, very helpful! Frequently refer back to it for clarifying basic concepts.
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