through meteor to the stars - developing full-stack spa's with meteor.js

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Preko meteora do zvezda

Wekoslav Stefanovskiswekster@gmail.com@swekster

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>whoami• Senior Developer in Seavus

• Coding professionally since last century

• Cofounder of Macedonian .net community

• I love C#

• With Javascript, it’s complicated

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Agenda• State of the web and state on the web• What is meteor and what does it do• What is it made of• How to use it

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State of the web• Javascript is the new assembly• All developers are Javascript developers• It’s a funny little language• Lot’s of hidden power, once you wrap your

head around it• Used to be incredibly slow, not so anymore• Great JIT compilers, like V8 and Chakra

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How to develop a web-app• Interface – HTML / CSS / PSD• Client – side logic– Thick client– Lots of JavaScript code (and it’s always JavaScript)

• Server – side logic–Getting thinner–Can use whatever language we want

• Data Store– SQL– Something else

• Don’t forget mobiles

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What does Meteor do• One language: JavaScript• Data on the wire• Database everywhere• Latency Compensation• Full Stack Reactivity• Embrace the Ecosystem• Simplicity equals Productivity

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What does it feel like?

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What does it feel like?

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Demo

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What is it made of?• Node.js• Blaze / Angular / React• MongoDB• Cordova

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How can I host it• meteor deploy• Meteor.com• Galaxy• MUP– self-hosted (does anyone do this anymore?)– Cloud - Azure

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Demo

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Why should I use Meteor?• The underlying principles are sound• All boring things happen magically• Very rapid development• Can use almost all npm packages• Very fast-growing community

• My recommendation:–Use for small, self contained applications

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Why shouldn’t I use Meteor?• A lot of things happen magically• Scales on hardware• Specific development environment• Immature community support• Limited data-store options

• My recommendation:– Don’t use for systems with existing data– Don’t use for heavily integrated applications

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Questions?

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Vidimo se / See you soon!