What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with Meteor, covers the basics of Meteor web development. It will cover programming in the same languages (CoffeeScript, Stylus, and Jade), teach us about templates, helpers, and events, and show how to structure web applications.

Chapter 2, Publish and Subscribe Patterns, covers the most important part of Meteor web development—publishers and subscribers. With this chapter, you will understand how to better organize your data to publish only the information that the client requires.

Chapter 3, Front-end Patterns, covers a handful of patterns to improve your frontend code. You will learn how to keep code from repeating and keep it modular, use different kinds of variables, create custom input elements, animations, and more.

Chapter 4, Application Patterns, covers more complex patterns that help to control how data flows into the client, how to keep this data secure, and how to connect with external APIs.

Chapter 5, Testing Patterns, covers how to maintain your code. You will learn how to test all the features of the application and how to only test functions. This will ensure that your code does not break when you start moving things around in the future.

Chapter 6, Deployment, covers how to bring your application to a production environment that will work the way it is meant to work. You will learn how to activate the oplog, how to track errors, and how to set up an SSL certificate.