Meteor in Action

Chapter 1. A better way to build apps

This chapter covers

• The story behind Meteor
• The Meteor stack
• Full-stack JavaScript, reactivity, and distributed platforms
• Core components of the Meteor platform
• The pros and cons of using Meteor
• The anatomy of Meteor applications

Meteors have a reputation of changing life as we know it. They’re capable of making dinosaurs extinct or forcing Bruce Willis to sacrifice his life for humankind. This book is about a Meteor that impacts web development, but it doesn’t threaten to destroy anything. On the contrary, it promises to offer a better way to build applications. Meteor takes several existing tools and libraries; combines them with new thoughts and new libraries, standards, and services; and bundles ...