Meteor in Action

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Chapter 1. A better way to build apps

Figure 1.1. The Meteor stack runs applications powered by smart packages on top of Node.js and MongoDB.

Figure 1.2. Synchronous and asynchronous events when heating up a pizza

Figure 1.3. The Node.js event loop

Figure 1.4. The difference between traditional and modern rich web applications

Figure 1.5. Traditional client-server architectures compared to distributed application platforms

Figure 1.6. Applications consist of business logic and various packages, which are compiled for the target platform using Isobuild.

Figure 1.7. Communication between the server and client

Figure 1.8. Data flow using latency compensation

Figure 1.9. The file structure for a simple application

Figure 1.10. Data ...