JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

This is 2013. If you are going to build a webapp, you must add real-time capabilities to the app. It is the standard. Meteor does a pretty good job at helping you to quickly build and make apps real-time. But meteor is tightly coupled with MongoDB and it is the only way to add real-time capabilities. Sometimes, this is overkill.

MongoDB is a perfect match for Meteor. But we don’t need to use MongoDB for all our real-time activities. For some problems, messaging based solutions work really well. It’s the same problem that pubnub andreal-time.co are also addressing.

EventedMind is a place dedicated to learning. Sometimes I'm learning the material along with you, and sharing as I go. Other times, I'm teaching from experience. And sometimes, I'm learning and teaching by experimenting with or creating new projects. In the future, I hope to cover projects and Meteor packages that other people have created as well.

Meteor is at the forefront of a new wave of frameworks that make building web apps easier, simpler, and faster.

Not only is Meteor entirely real-time (meaning any change to your database is automatically reflected live in the browser), but the fact that it uses JavaScript on both the client and servermeans that you won't have to juggle with multiple languages and environments anymore.

No matter your programming experience, by following our step-by-step instructions you'll be able to get your own Meteor app up and running in a matter of days!

What we are building in this tutorial is a real-time social news app, complete with posting, voting and commenting.

During the HTML5 Track at QCon New York 2013 Matt DeBergalis gave a talk on Meteor, the open-source real-time web application framework that Debergalis co-founded. According to DeBergalis, the client versus server-side pendulum has swung many times: from the mainframe (server-side) to the desktop (client-side) to the web (server-side) and now to the modern web where clients get increasingly capable and more and more work happens in the client again. However, the tools to build these modern web applications, DeBergalis argues, have not caught up. The goal of Meteor is to provide the developer with the tools to build these types of real-time web applications more easily and consistently.