Fabian Vogelsteller - Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor [2015, PDF/EPUB/MOBI/AZW3, ENG] + Code

Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Meteor
The full-stack framework of Meteor
Meteor's requirements
Installing Meteor
Creating our first app
Adding basic packages
Variable scopes
Meteor's folder conventions and loading order
Meteor's command-line tool
Chapter 2: Building HTML Templates
Writing templates in Meteor
Building the basic templates
Adding templates and partials
Displaying data with template helpers
Setting the data context for a template
"this" in template helpers and template callbacks
Adding events
Block helpers
Listing posts
Spacebars syntax
Chapter 3: Storing Data and Handling Collections
Meteor and databases
Setting up a collection
Adding post examples
Querying a collection
Updating a collection
Database everywhere
Differences between client and server collections
Chapter 4: Controlling the Data Flow
Syncing data – the current Web versus the new Web
Removing the autopublish package
Publishing data
Publishing only parts of data
Publishing specific fields
Lazy loading posts
Switching subscriptions
Some notes on data publishing
Chapter 5: Making Our App Versatile with Routing
Adding the iron:router package
Setting up the router
Switching to a layout template
Adding another route
Moving the posts subscription to the Home route
Setting up the post route
Changing the website's title
Chapter 6: Keeping States with Sessions
Meteor's session object
Using sessions in template helpers
Rerunning functions reactively
Using autorun in a template
The reactive session object
Chapter 7: Users and Permissions
Meteor's accounts packages
Adding the accounts packages
Adding admin functionality to our templates
Creating the template to edit posts
Creating the admin user
Creating routes for the admin
Chapter 8: Security with the Allow and Deny Rules
Adding a function to generate slugs
Creating a new post
Editing posts
Restricting database updates
Adding a deny rule
Adding posts using a method call
Calling the method
Chapter 9: Advanced Reactivity
Reactive programming
Building a simple reactive object
Creating an advanced timer object
Reactive computations
Chapter 10: Deploying Our App
Deploying on meteor.com
Deploying on other servers
Outlook
Chapter 11: Building Our Own Package
The structure of a package
Creating our own package
Releasing our package to the public
Chapter 12: Testing in Meteor
Types of tests
Testing packages
Testing our meteor app
Acceptance tests
Appendix
List of Meteor's command-line tool commands
The iron:router hooks
Index