JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

I recently read a post that talked about how Meteor, especially the server side, is hard to debug. I highly disagree with that statement. I actually think debugging is easier than in most languages that I've tried. Since I seem to think it is easy but others don't, it is time for a blog post to share that knowledge!

This is the first of a five-part series on building a Slack clone using Meteor. The aim of these tutorials are not just for you to blindly follow instructures, but it’s our hope that you’ll understand the thought process and reasoning behind the architecture. Installation Installation is simple, just run the shell script Meteor prepared […]

I know many PHP and Node.js frameworks but none of them is as simple as Meteor. Even front-end developer can write full-stack application in Meteor. You just need to know JavaScript, MongoDB, HTML, CSS and you will be able to build Meteor app.

Meteor's code does not look like code of classic Node.js framework. It's an abstraction of Node.js and it's more beautiful.

For example client code consists of helpers, events, sessions and templates...

Build Meteor apps with Ionic… No Angular required!

Ionic is arguably the most comprehensive, polished, cross-platform mobile framework available. But unfortunately a large portion of its functionality comes from Angular directives. I'm not a fan of trying to force-fit Angular into Meteor, so I wanted to see if I could rewrite Ionic specifically for Meteor.

In this post, I’m going to walk you through building your own Speech Recognition web app that uses many of the same technologies and techniques that my team did in building Ayni’s speech recognition tool. We’re going to work through:

• Downloading & installing Meteor
• Adding the necessary packages
• Recording speech from your laptop microphone
• Getting a transcript of the recording using the Haven OnDemand API

We’re going to focus on the most interesting aspect of the project: Getting a text transcript of you speaking to your microphone.

Why you should use TypeScript for Meteor projects and how to start? Introducing meteor-typescript-utils.

It’s painful to build large Meteor projects with pure JavaScript.

Meteor’s design makes it extremely easy to start building impressive applications. However, this comes at a cost of things being magically matched between files by their names and injected in various places. This is especially true when you’re using the great Iron:Router package, which provides URL routes, controllers and layouts. It’s just too easy for changes to break things, since all the matching of methods names, session variable names, templates’ helpers, events and data is done by their string names and all related errors happen on runtime.

Meteor itself does not rely on REST APIs, but it can easily access data from other services. This article is an excerpt from the book Meteor in Action and explains how you can integrate third-party data into your applications by accessing RESTful URLs from the server-side.

Many applications rely on external APIs to retrieve data. Getting information regarding your friends from Facebook, looking up the current weather in your area, or simply retrieving an avatar image from another website – there are endless uses for integrating additional data. They all share a common challenge: APIs must be called from the server, but an API usually takes longer than executing the method itself. You need to ensure that the result gets back to the client – even if it takes a couple of seconds. Let’s talk about how to integrate an external API via HTTP.

Based on the IP address of a visitor, you can tell various information about their current location, e.g., coordinates, city or timezone. There is a simple API that takes an IPv4 address and returns all these tidbits as a JSON object. The API is called Telize. 

What is Meteor? Meteor.js is an open-source platform built on Node and MongoDB. It’s not just a framework, it’s more than that. Is it comparable to Angular? Angular handles just the frontend parts of application. Meteor is more of a platform than Angular. It is both server and client-side code and handles a lot of […]

In this post, we will see how we can leverage the power of Meteor js to build top quality apps at lightning pace. We will take a quick look at how the framework works and how we can leverage it to build apps easily.

By the end of this post, we will be building 2 apps. A Single Page Chat Application (SPA)  only with Meteor js to get a feel of Meteor & a Multi Page Application (MPA) named Events Feed, leveraging Meteorite js – a package manager for Meteor js & Iron router, that will serve the purpose of a Chat app at live public events.

In this tutorial we're going to build a simple app that allows you to record the scores of your foosball matches (you play foosball at work right?).

Current chapters:

•  Overview
•  Setup/Structure
•  Templates
•  Collections
•  Events
•  Data Design
•  Templates 2
•  Accounts
•  Methods
•  Router
•  Animation Part 1
•  Animation Part 2
•  Testing
•  Collection2 Package