Treffer: Building Real-Time Web Applications with Meteor

The Meteor framework provides a way to develop realtime web applications with just one programming language: JavaScript. While keeping in mind other conventional technology stacks as LAMP, the framework can be seen as a whole new paradigm because it makes use of server-side JavaScript. First, we shortly explore the history of web development frameworks in order to describe the context of Meteor. Second, the architecture and operating principles are discussed in order to explain the real-time aspects of Meteor. Strengths and weaknesses are explored and example applications will be discussed to show the power of Meteor. Finally a guide to build a Meteor application is given and core elements contributing to create real-time applications with Meteor, such as 'templates' and 'collections' are explained.