Summary

We went over the foundation of Meteor and overviewed its core components. High-level databases, servers, package managers, and its communication protocol (Distributed Data Protocol). On a high level, we now understand how the platform works.

We installed Meteor and created a sample app with the Meteor CLI. Then, we went over the default app skeleton and some of the included Atmosphere and NPM packages.

On the frontend, we overviewed the basics of React, its data flow, and component architecture. Then, we created a sample real-time server to client communication app and got familiar with the core functionality of the Meteor Publish and Subscribing API.

In the next chapter, we will get more familiar with the Meteor Methods, Schema, and validation by building a simple shopping cart app, and we will continue exploring data handling and reactive rendering with React on the frontend.