Slides from the Meteor Pittsburgh meetup on January 21, 2014.

1. Meteor Pittsburgh
Meetup
Tuesday January 21, 2014

2. AGENDA
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Icebreaker
History & Quick Facts of Meteor
Real Life Meteor Applications
Up and Running With Meteor
Upcoming Addition in v1.0
Other Resources
Questions?

3. ICEBREAKER
• Team up with a person
• Learn
– Their name
– What they currently do (student, professional, etc)
– Have they built anything in Meteor?
– Random fact about them
• Introduce them to the group

4. HISTORY OF METEOR
• Originally called Skybreak and debuted on
December 1, 2011
• Stealth Participant of S11 Y Combinator Class
• Raised $11.2 million
– Led by Andreessen Horowitz
• Late 2012 – rolled out User Accounts
• Team Consists of great engineers from
CloudFlare, ActBlue, Asana, Google, and many
others.

5. METEOR FACTS
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Built on top of Node.js
Runs on both Client and Server side
Fully reactive & real-time
Makes use of all JS libraries you’re already
familiar with (jQuery, Underscore, Handlebars)
• Works with MongoDB for the time being
• Distributed Data Protocol

6. REAL LIFE METEOR APPLICATIONS

7. REAL LIFE METEOR APPLICATIONS

8. REAL LIFE METEOR APPLICATIONS

9. UP AND RUNNING WITH METEOR IN
TWO MINUTES
“Meteor is to Node as Rails is to Ruby”
• Open your Terminal
curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh
meteor create myAppName
cd myAppName
meteor
• That’s it.
• File structure varies

10. UPCOMING IN V1.0
• Meteor UI – templating engine
• Meteor Galaxy – hosting engine for
corporations
• Official package system
• Scaling
• Possibility of Full Windows support

11. OTHER RESOURCES
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Meteor Docs
Unofficial Meteor FAQ
Meteor Hacks
Discover Meteor (book) - $127 w/ Discount
Evented Mind
Atmosphere 3rd Party Packages
Meteor Boilerplate by Differential

12. NEXT MEETING
• Live Google Hangout tonight with the writers
of Discover Meteor & Chris Mather of
EventedMind
– 7:30PM EST – Link is on Meetup Group
• Next meetup
– Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
– Time: TBD
– Location: TBD (open to suggestions)

13. Questions?