Author: saqibkhan

  • Real-Time Features

    Meteor is well-known for its real-time capabilities. You can use this to build features like live chat or real-time notifications. Example of Real-Time Chat: Client Side: Server Side: Client Side Subscription:

  • Testing Meteor Applications

    Testing is crucial for ensuring your application works correctly. **1. Unit Testing: Use the practicalmeteor:mocha package for unit testing: Write Tests: **2. Integration Testing: Use cypress or webdriver for end-to-end testing. Write Integration Tests:

  • Meteor’s Package Ecosystem

    Meteor has a rich ecosystem of packages for various functionalities. Some useful packages include: Adding a Package: Using a Package:

  • Using Accounts and Authentication

    Meteor has built-in support for user authentication. You can use packages like accounts-base, accounts-password, and more. Setting Up Accounts: Create a New User: Log In a User:

  • Security Best Practices

    **1. Data Validation: Always validate data on the server side to prevent malicious data from being saved. **2. Use Meteor’s check Package: For validation: **3. Limit Publications: Only publish the data needed by the client to avoid exposing sensitive data.

  • Advanced Meteor Features

    Reactive Programming Meteor leverages reactive programming to automatically update the UI when the underlying data changes. This is a powerful feature and is built into Meteor’s data layer. Reactive Variables: You can create reactive variables using ReactiveVar: Tracker: Tracker allows you to automatically re-run code when reactive data sources change. Method Calls Meteor methods are…

  • Deploying Your App

    You can deploy your Meteor app to Galaxy, a Meteor hosting service, or to other platforms like Heroku. For Galaxy: For other platforms, you might need to follow their specific deployment instructions, which typically involve configuring environment variables and building your app.

  • Routing

    Meteor doesn’t come with a built-in routing system, but you can use third-party packages like iron:router or kadira:flow-router. Here’s an example using iron:router: Define Routes:

  • Adding Packages

    Meteor has a rich ecosystem of packages. To add a package, use: For example, to add the popular accounts-base package:

  • Basic Concepts

    **1. Blaze Templating: Meteor comes with its own templating system called Blaze. Here’s an example of a simple Blaze template: **2. Collections: Collections are a way to manage and store data. Here’s how to define a new collection: **3. Publications and Subscriptions: To manage data flow between the server and client, you use publications and…