Talk about Meteor and real world production apps developed by Almog Development Studio for Las Vegas Ruby on Rails user group.

1. The JavaScript app platform
Almog Koren
www.almog.io

2. Who Am I
Developer
MeteorJS / NodeJS
Formerly founder
of Scoreoid & Platfarm
Developer / Entrepreneur
Almog Koren
Founder at
Almog Development Studio
Speak at events like
Casual Connect, Mobile Summit
DroidCon, ect..
Scuba Diver &
Rock Climber

3. Disclaimer
This deck was provided by Meteor
Development Group, as part of the
community outreach provided for Meteor
user group mangers. I made modification
and updates.

4. What We’ll Cover
• What is Meteor?
• Why Meteor?
• Code Demo (Real Production Apps)
• Who is using it?
• What We Developed (Almog R&D Ltd.)
• Meteor Community
• Who is behind it?

5. What is Meteor?

6. One codebase,
all platforms
Open and extensible
100% pure
JavaScript
Collaborative iOS and Android
app
<1000 lines of JavaScript
A full-stack, open source platform for building web and mobile apps in JavaScript
Fast and fun
development

7. Build advanced apps quickly
with a small team

8. Meteor components
• Command Line Tool
• View Layer (Blaze , Angular, React, Jade)
• Livequery
• Full stack package system (Atmosphere)
• Node Package System
• Build system (Cordova/Phonegap)

9. Why Meteor?

10. Table stakes
TodayYesterday
Browser Mobile
Refresh button Live updates
Individual sessions Multiuser collaboration
Links and forms Native-style GUI

11. Updates without refreshing the browser

12. Real-time collaboration

13. “We’ve bled all over it.”
Brett Kiefer
The Trello Tech Stack
http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/

14. Result: Complex stack
HTML Templates App Logic
Reactive UI update system
Native mobile container
Speculative client-side updates
Client-side data store
Custom data sync protocol
Realtime database monitoring
Build & update system
We want to focus on the app, not the infrastructure
App Microservices
PLATFORM
Blaze
Livequery
Client Data Cache
MongoDB SQL REST
App Components & Logic
React Angular
SERVER
CLIENT
SOURCES
DDP
MobileWeb

15. Meteor code demo

16. MongoDB DOM
Server Client
M
essages.insert()M
essages.insert()
Meteor Data Flows
Minimongo
Optimistic UI

17. What We Saw – Meteor Tool
Install to deploy in minutes w/free hosting
Hot code push
Multi-platform support
Full-stack packages

18. What We Saw – Framework Features
Reactive rendering
Database sync
Intuitive, isomorphic API
Minimal boilerplate code

19. The Meteor Platform
App Microservices
PLATFORM
Blaze
Livequery
Client Data Cache
MongoDB SQL REST
App Components & Logic
React Angular
SERVER
CLIENT
SOURCES
DDP
MobileWeb

20. Who is using Meteor?

21. Companies using Meteor

22. Workpop: Raised $7.9 million Series A led by Trinity Ventures
“the most rapid prototyping, iteration and development
we’ve ever seen from an early stage company”

23. App We Developed

24. Almog R&D Ltd.
almog.io
A boutique development studio & Official Meteor Partner, helping
companies large and small achieve their goals. We build
applications that are engaging and usable and believe simplicity
combined with a custom innovative approach to each project is
the key to a successful experience.
Proficient in a wide range of development solutions and can help
you take your product from idea to market.

25. Apps We Have Developed
https://almog.io/startup-mvp/

26. Meteor Community

27. Meteor community
Over 200 meetup groups
Over 6,000 community-authored packages
Ranked in top10 on GitHub

28. Who is behind Meteor?

29. Meteor Development Group
Funded (won’t disappear)
- $20 Million series B - May 2015
Active development by full-time employees
Revenue product: Galaxy
- high-availability/large scale Meteor hosting
Meteor platform is MIT-licensed
- host anywhere; you own the code

30. meteor.com/learn
Official Meteor Tutorial
Official Meteor Docs
Meteor Forums
Discover Meteor (book)
Stack Overflow
meteor.com/try
docs.meteor.com
forums.meteor.com
book.discovermeteor.com
stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/meteor

31. Example Apps
Todos — a full-featured todo list app
collaborative app, access control, responsive
meteor create --example todos
Local Market — a mobile social engagement app
Twitter integration, camera integration, mobile-optimized
meteor create --example localmarket

32. Thank You!
@IsAlmog
almog@almog.io