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# Setup dir and repo
mkdir underscore-string
cd underscore-string
git init
# Make some files we'll need
touch README.md package.js smart.json
# Add the submodule and checkout the desired branch
git submodule add git://github.com/epeli/underscore.string.git lib/underscore.string
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possibilities / meteor-async.md
Created August 23, 2012 22:53
Meteor Async Guide

From Meteor's documentation:

In Meteor, your server code runs in a single thread per request, not in the asynchronous callback style typical of Node. We find the linear execution model a better fit for the typical server code in a Meteor application.

This guide serves as a mini-tour of tools, trix and patterns that can be used to run async code in Meteor.

Basic async

Sometimes we need to run async code in Meteor.methods. For this we create a Future to block until the async code has finished. This pattern can be seen all over Meteor's own codebase: