WarsawJS #17: Reactive JavaScript all-in: Meteor
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The document is a presentation about reactive JavaScript using Meteor. It introduces Meteor and provides a demo of creating a chat application with Meteor. Key points: - Meteor is a full-stack JavaScript framework that allows building reactive web applications and works across browsers and mobile. - It is built on Node.js and uses a distributed database with publish-subscribe to sync data in real-time. - A demo shows how to quickly create a chat application with Meteor by installing it and generating a project scaffold. - Meteor uses hot code reload, optimistic UI updates, and other features to make developers more productive.
WarsawJS #17: Reactive JavaScript all-in: Meteor
- 1. Reactive JavaScript all-in: Jacek Migdal 2016-01-13, WarsawJS #17
- 2. Who Am I? The Cloud Juggler Senior Software Engineer at We do logs in cloud: supercharged grep | awk in the browser Google for your internal infrastructure Meteor is my hobby. I dont use it at my day job.
- 4. Tl;dr: History of the Web 1970s Client-Server Model 1990s Web: Http, Html 2010s WebApps, Mobile
- 5. How did we get there? Humble beginning. Initial web: text with links JavaScript: created in 10 days Lots of tricks: AJAX, Long polling, ...
- 6. How did we get there? Natural selection. Java applets vs. JavaScript XHTML vs. HTML5 Flash vs. Open standards Browser wars
- 7. How did we get get there? Lots of money put in. Dotcom boom (1990s), lots of multibillion companies based on web (e.g. Google, Facebook). JavaScript is the fastest dynamic language. Browsers are like OS.
- 8. Can we learn to fly by jumping higher? Evolution created humans. Humans created cars, planes, nuclear weapons, space rockets...
- 9. What would be the ideal web framework? Full-stack JavaScript. All platforms: browsers and mobile. Reactive by default. Makes developers 10x productive. Websites are applications.
- 10. Meteor demo $ curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh $ meteor create warsawjs-chat
- 13. Meteor: under the hood Built on top of Node.js Distributed database: publish- subscribe Templating (also supports Angular and React) Package system (also supports Npm) Node.js + MongoDB Chrome Safari
- 14. Meteor: other features Hot code reload Optimistic UI Native Mobile EcmaScript 2015 Modular
- 15. Meteor: complete solution for connected apps Django, Rails, etc. -> server frameworks React, Angular -> client templating and components Node.js -> JavaScript event based server
- 16. Meteor: why now? Connected devices are powerful. Consumer applications sets a high bar (e.g. Facebook, Uber). We are expected to get a lot of done with less time (see software salaries).
- 17. Built your next app in Meteor 1. Visit https://www.meteor.com/ 2. $ curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh 3. Create something!
- 19. One more thing: one day workshop. Anyone? jacek@migdal.pl