Hi. Welcome to the Meteor Cookbook; a FAQ and tutorial culled and currated from over 9 months of emails and discussions from the [meteor] google group and my experiences rolling out packages and apps. These documents are intended for the intermediate user learning Meteor, who is accustomed to a) object-oriented frameworks and languages, such as Java and C#, and b) relational databases and data structures derived from SQL table schemas. The focus is on helping the user grow accustomed to functional programming using document oriented databases.

Index

• General Advice
• Language References
  • Glossary
  • Syntax
  • Grammar
  • Language
• Installation
  • Quickstart
  • Development Tools
  • Webstorm IDE
  • Test Driven Development
• Site Mechanics
  • File Structure
  • Dependencies
  • App Structure
  • Event Cycle
  • Namespacing
  • Packages
  • Configuration
• Open Systems Interconnection Model
  • Physical Layer (Client Side)
    • Keybindings
    • Console Logging
    • Mutlitouch
  • Data-Link Layer
    • WebKit Browsers
      • File IO
      • Video IO
  • Network Layer
    • Environments
      • Development
      • Production
      • Detection
    • Peer to Peer
  • Transport Layer
    • Scaling
    • Data Distribution Protocol
    • Clustering
    • Websockets
  • Data Layer
    • Collections
      • User Accounts
      • Aggregation
    • Schema Migrations
    • Data Validation
    • Database Management
  • Presentation Layer
    • Templates
    • Images
    • Animations
  • Application Layer
    • Routing
    • Pages
      • Single Page Design
      • Multi-Page Design
      • Wizard Dialog
      • Multi-Page with Routing
      • Page Transitions
      • Modal Dialogs
      • Errors & Alerts
    • Application Programming Interfaces
      • Integration of 3rd party APIs
      • Exposing a REST API
    • User Interface Patterns
      • Page Resize
      • Page Freeze
      • Drag and Drop
• Error Referece
• Recipes
  • Blog
  • Tagging
• Breaking Changes

In Progress

• Async & Futures
• Database Migrations
• Data Transformations

Community Breaking News - 0.6.6

As of 0.6.6, Package.register_extention() is now deprecated and breaks applications. Please remove any such calls from your packages.

// Depreciated as of Meteor 0.6.6  
// Package.register_extension(
//     "otf", function (bundle, source_path, serve_path, where) {
//         bundle.add_resource({
//             type: "static",
//             path: '/fonts/' + serve_path.split('/').pop(),
//             source_file: source_path,
//             where: where
//         });
//     }
// );

Sample Applets
New section. Probably going to eventually wind up in the recipes.md page.

Fonts & Calligraphy
http://fonts.meteor.com/

Data Sets
http://hubble.meteor.com/

Acceptance Testing
http://safety-harness.meteor.com/

Creating Forms
http://forms-kitchen-sink.meteor.com/

Understanding The Rendering Event Loop
http://reactive-rendering-tests.meteor.com/

Dictionary
http://dictionary.meteor.com/

Mobile Devices - iOS in Particular
https://github.com/awatson1978/cordova-phonegap

Useful Modules/Recipes

Reactive Overlays
https://github.com/awatson1978/reactive-overlays

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