Getting started with Meteor.js
Meteor.js for the beginner
Jacob Clark
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What is Meteor?
Here is a quick juicy overview of what Meteor actually is! Note: This book is a work in
progress!
In short Meteor allows you to create dynamic, real time web applications in a fraction of the time
and code.
Meteor uses many JavaScript libraries and frameworks out the box, you may already be familiar
with some of these when writing Client Side JavaScript such as Backbone, Underscore and jQuery.
Infact, code you write for Meteor is entirely JavaScript, so any of that knowledge you have behind
you when writing Node or Client Side JavaScript you’re going to be putting into practise when you
develop for Meteor, so keep that in mind throughout this book.
Meteor even comes bundled with MongoDB on every application out the box for persistent database
storage. Not quite MongoDB, but MiniMongo, an interface for MongoDB, it’s fairly fully featured
but it does lack some of the features you’d expect using Mongos interface, we will come to this
shortly!
Meteor has an emphasis on real time applications and because of this you’re encouraged to use
Handlebars. Every Meteor application created is set up to work with Handlebars out the box, so
that means we’ll also be looking at this lovely templating engine too, if you’re unfamiliar with it
you may want to check it out http://handlebarsjs.com/¹.
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Contents
What is Meteor?
