Build Applications with Meteor

Table of contents

1. Preface
   1. What this book covers
   2. What you need for this book
   3. Who this book is for
   4. Conventions
   5. Reader feedback
   6. Customer support
      1. Downloading the example code
      2. Downloading the color images of this book
      3. Errata
      4. Piracy
      5. Questions
2. Foundation of Meteor
   1. Setting up the development environment
   2. Building a Meteor app
   3. The frontend with React
      1. The React's state
         1. Adding state to a stateless function component
      2. Inheritance versus composition
      3. Adding a state to a component
      4. Meteor with React
         1. Adding and removing atmosphere packages in Meteor
         2. Integrating React with Meteor's reactive data system
         3. Explore MongoDB in the Meteor shell
         4. Publishing and Subscribing
            1. Improvements in the current code
   4. Summary
3. Building a Shopping Cart
   1. Creating the project structure
   2. On the server
   3. Building the application components
      1. The ProductsContainer
         1. PropTypes
      2. The CartContainer
   4. Adding router to the application
      1. App.js
      2. ProductComponent.js
      3. The data containers
         1. BooksContainer.js
         2. MusicContainer.js
   5. Meteor methods
      1. Removing item from the cart
      2. Updating the quantity of an item in the cart
      3. Let's create another method that will calculate the cart's total price
   6. Considerations for scalability
      1. Basic validations on the server
      2. Defining a schema
      3. Defaults
   7. Summary
4. Style Your React Components with Bootstrap and Material Design
   1. Mobile first
      1. Making it mobile friendly!
   2. Modular CSS with LESS
      1. Test it out!
   3. Modular CSS with Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets
   4. Bootstrap and Meteor
   5. Using CSS modules with Meteor
   6. Meteor and webpack styling the shopping cart
      1. Test it out!
      2. Test it out!
   7. Styling the shopping cart with Material Design Lite
      1. The grid
   8. Summary
5. Real-Time Twitter Streaming
   1. Twitter streaming
      1. The application structure
   2. Meteor with Redux
      1. Redux and pure functions
      2. The Redux parts
      3. Why do we need Redux when we have Minimongo on the client?
   3. Building the App
      1. Folder structure client
      2. Getting the data from the collection
   4. Async actions in Redux
   5. Creating the App components
   6. Connecting the Redux store with the React components
      1. The containers and the components of the App
      2. The Filter components
      3. Tweets component
      4. The Sentiment component
      5. On the Server
      6. Test it out and improve it!
   7. Summary
6. Developing Kanban Project Management Tool
   1. Drag and drop in React
      1. Test it out!
   2. Building the App
   3. The reducer function
   4. Building the Modal
      1. Test it out!
      2. Higher-Order Components
      3. Test it out!
   5. Summary
7. Building a Real-Time Search Application
   1. Importing the data
   2. Index a text field
   3. Try it out!
   4. Building the app
      1. Test it Out!
   5. Summary
8. Real-Time Maps
   1. Building the App
      1. The server side
      2. Test it out!
   2. Summary
9. Build a Chatbot with Facebook’s Messenger Platform
   1. Building the app
      1. Training the bot
      2. Moving the chatbot to the Meteor app
      3. Test it out and improve it!
      4. Adding Cassandra to our stack
      5. Adding GraphQL to the stack
   2. Summary
10. Build Internet of Things Platform
    1. What is gRPC?
       1. Test it out!
    2. Building the apps
       1. Test it out!
       2. Test it out!
       3. Test it and improve it!
    3. Summary