meet-meteor.md

Meet Meteor

The framework for turning ideas into webapps

A full stack web framework

• Manages client and server side.
• Things like Rails manage server side issues.
• Things like Ember & Angular provide front-end structure.
• Meteor helps out with both.
• It's Node + MongoDB + WebSockets + Handlebars, in a package designed to get you up and running, fast.

It's focused on realtime reactivity

• Most existing frameworks cater for the traditional model; server handles a request by sending back html, the client renders it and we all twiddle our thumbs and wait until the user interacts with the page.
• Meteor doesn't do that.
• Meteor is all about data and diffs, autosync'd and live updated. It still all ends up as angle brackets and web pages, but Meteor has grown up in a world where client side templating is a thing, and user experience matters.

Keeping it simple

• Your client gets a collection. When they add something to it, Meteor syncs the change to the server, and pushes it out to all the other connected clients.
• That's it.
• ...and that's why it's awesome.
• Your client and server code is all JS.
• The collection api is just a subset of the mongo api.
• There are just less things to keep in your brain-stack.
• And so the velociraptor of complexity is kept at bay long enough for you to crank out your ideas.

React! Respond! Deploy!

• It's fun. Try it.
• Graphs that dance in front of your eyes, maps that track in realtime, collaborative drawing boards. Formally all the domain of desktop apps and wizards.
• Even if you are smart enough to have an idea on how you'd build a twitter like website that updates as you're looking at it, it's not trivial to get going. There's a lot of choices to make and beasties to dodge.
• It is super simple to install Meteor then create and deploy your first reactive app. Look:

  	 curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh      // EGADS! Running a script off the internet! 
                                                    // Go look at the source if you're worried.

  	 meteor create flipping-awesome-app             // create a working template app
  	 meteor                                         // runs it
  	 meteor deploy flipping-awesome                 // deploys it to flipping-awesome.meteor.com

WAT MOAR DO U WANT?

Proof, dammit! I want proof.

• http://goto.meteor.com
• http://meet.meteor.com
• http://foam.meteor.com
• http://browpie.meteor.com
• http://blackboard.meteor.com
• http://competition.orlebarbrown.com/
• http://listerly.co/
• http://www.wigwamm.com/
• http://pegleg.it/

Slides, dammit! I want slides.

• http://the-medium-is-the-message.meteor.com/
• https://github.com/jongd/realworld-realtime

Oh. Ok. Sounds fun. Let's go!

• http://meteor.com/
• http://www.meetup.com/Meteor-London/