meteor pittsburgh meetup 1-21-2014
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Slides from the Meteor Pittsburgh meetup on January 21, 2014.TRANSCRIPT
Meteor Pittsburgh Meetup
Tuesday January 21, 2014
AGENDA
• Icebreaker• History & Quick Facts of Meteor• Real Life Meteor Applications• Up and Running With Meteor• Upcoming Addition in v1.0• Other Resources• Questions?
ICEBREAKER
• Team up with a person• Learn– Their name– What they currently do (student, professional, etc)– Have they built anything in Meteor?– Random fact about them
• Introduce them to the group
HISTORY OF METEOR
• Originally called Skybreak and debuted on December 1, 2011
• Stealth Participant of S11 Y Combinator Class• Raised $11.2 million– Led by Andreessen Horowitz
• Late 2012 – rolled out User Accounts• Team Consists of great engineers from
CloudFlare, ActBlue, Asana, Google, and many others.
METEOR FACTS
• Built on top of Node.js• Runs on both Client and Server side• Fully reactive & real-time• Makes use of all JS libraries you’re already
familiar with (jQuery, Underscore, Handlebars)• Works with MongoDB for the time being• Distributed Data Protocol
REAL LIFE METEOR APPLICATIONS
REAL LIFE METEOR APPLICATIONS
REAL LIFE METEOR APPLICATIONS
UP AND RUNNING WITH METEOR IN TWO MINUTES
“Meteor is to Node as Rails is to Ruby”• Open your Terminal curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh meteor create myAppName cd myAppName meteor• That’s it.• File structure varies
UPCOMING IN V1.0
• Meteor UI – templating engine• Meteor Galaxy – hosting engine for
corporations• Official package system• Scaling• Possibility of Full Windows support
OTHER RESOURCES
• Meteor Docs• Unofficial Meteor FAQ• Meteor Hacks• Discover Meteor (book) - $127 w/ Discount• Evented Mind• Atmosphere 3rd Party Packages• Meteor Boilerplate by Differential
NEXT MEETING
• Live Google Hangout tonight with the writers of Discover Meteor & Chris Mather of EventedMind– 7:30PM EST – Link is on Meetup Group
• Next meetup– Tuesday, February 18th, 2014– Time: TBD– Location: TBD (open to suggestions)
Questions?