MILANO

19/03/2015

Introduction to Meteor

Miro Radenovic

Dev4Side partner

10y of .NET and JS survivor

Session overview

• WebDev: OLD vs NEW vs Meteor
• Why I choose Meteor
• Meteor as a fullstack framework
• What we build in D4S with Meteor
• Demo

Web development - old way

• Client
  • Javascript (Angular, Ember, Knockout)
• Server 
  • NET, Python, Ruby.. (asp.NET, Django, Rails, etc..)

How i LEARNED WEB DEVELOPMENT SHOULD be

THen, after 2009..

• Client
  • Javascript (Angular, Ember, Knockout)
• Server 
  •  Node.js (Express, Restify,hapi, etc)

moving to the  Full stack JS

Client

Server

DB

JAVASCRIPT

Full stack JS : METEOR

• Client
  • Javascript (METEOR)
• Server 
  •  Node.js (METEOR)

Meteor can run same code on Client and on Server

METEOR PRINCIPLES

Client

Server

DB

• One Language

• Database Everywhere.

• PubSub - no AJAX

• Full Stack Reactivity.

Why invest in METEOR

• Open Source
• VC investors put $11.2 mm
  • Top VC fund Andreessen Horowitz (github.com)
  • The wise and patient counsel of James Lindenbaum (Heroku) has already been invaluable. Besides James, other individual investors include Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook/Asana), Alexis Ohanian (Reddit), Paul Buchheit (Gmail), Maynard Webb, Ron Conway, and others

What We HAVE builT

with meteor

at DEV4SIDE