Real-time web applications with the Meteor framework
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The Meteor web framework lets you do all your programming in JavaScript – and it includes some useful features for rapid development.
Many web developers use multiple programming languages for a single application: code in PHP, Ruby, Python, or Java on the server and JavaScript for the browser. Thanks to the open source Meteor [1] framework, developers can now program web applications entirely in JavaScript, with just the normal dusting of HTML and CSS. Programming in one language can significantly reduce the development overhead. Meteor also offers some automation features and a variety of prebuilt packages.
In this article, I show how to implement an interactive web application with Meteor, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. As an example, I'll show you how to create a simple content management system with a list of contributions, an editor, and access controls.
Installation
Meteor is released under the MIT license and was available in a prerelease version numbered 0.7.0 when this issue went to press. When version 1.0 of the framework appears in the spring of 2014, Meteor will be ready for production. Meteor itself is written entirely in JavaScript. On the server side, Meteor relies on Node.js. The Meteor Development Group developed the Meteor software as an open source project, which was sponsored by several investors from the Internet industry.
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