A brief introduction to Meteor I gave at the February 2014 Portland Meteor meetup before beginning my live-coding session. The code from the live-coding session can be found at https://github.com/ryepdx/meteor-chat

1. Meteor
Building your first app
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2. curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh
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3. Why Meteor?
- Simple
- Reactive
- Batteries Included
curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh
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4. Simple
Less of this.
(Thanks, Fibers!)
curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh
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5. Reactive
Feels like this.
curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh
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6. Batteries Included*
abstrusegoose.com
What NPM + Meteorite feels like.
*Bacon not included.
curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh
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7. Speaking of Meteorite...
(Anyone still need this?)
curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh
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8. Speaking of Meteorite...
npm install -g meteorite
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9. Speaking of Meteorite...
- Community’s preferred package manager.
- Enables “smart packages.”
- Find packages at https://atmosphere.meteor.com/
npm install -g meteorite
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10. Now back to Meteor!
But first...
git clone https://github.com/ryepdx/meteor-chat.git
npm install -g meteorite
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11. 7 Principles of Meteor
1. Data on the Wire
2. One Language
3. Database Everywhere
4. Latency Compensation
5. Full Stack Reactivity
6. Embrace the Ecosystem
7. Simplicity Equals Productivity
git clone https://github.com/ryepdx/meteor-chat.git
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12. Anatomy of a Meteor app
yourapp/
lib/
client/
server/
client/
server/
git clone https://github.com/ryepdx/meteor-chat.git
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13. Let’s code!
(Anyone still need this?)
git clone https://github.com/ryepdx/meteor-chat.git
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14. Thank you!
Questions?
Ryan Casey / ryan@ryepdx.com / Twitter: @ryepdx