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by sbking 12y ago
Eventually. It's on the roadmap: https://trello.com/c/sWcxRwxN/31-redis-support One of the core developers seems to be working on it: https://github.com/meteor/redis-livedata
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by sbking 12y ago
In production in bundles and minifies all JS and HTML into one file that is sent to the client. Then all further communication happens with JSON over WebSockets/SockJS. If changes are made to the JS/HTML, the server will send down
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by sbking 12y ago
It seems like too much magic until you've been exposed to it a bit. It's actually pretty simple to visualize what's going on under the hood, but it takes a bit to click. Reading the DDP spec and the tracker package definitely
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by sbking 12y ago
You need to be running the Node.js Meteor application. The client relies on DDP rather than REST and right now Meteor is the only server framework using DDP. There is, however, an isomorphic HTTP library which makes it easy to communicate w
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by sbking 12y ago
Another point to add is Meteor's EJSON, which is a simple spec for defining how any complex, constructed or factory-made JavaScript objects should be serialized to JSON, and then deserialized back into a full JS object with behavior. O
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by sbking 12y ago
It is a full stack web framework, where you write in 100% JavaScript on the client and server, sharing much of the code with isomorphic APIs. It is not meant to be used on top of Rails, but rather as a full replacement for the combination o
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by sbking 12y ago
More that it fully simulates the mongo api. When you perform an insert/update on the client, the following will happen: 1. The command will be sent to the server. 2. The command will be performed on the local database, but backing up t
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by sbking 12y ago
The reasons I prefer Meteor (in no particular order): * Fully automated build chain. No matter what kind of preprocessors I use, all my code is compiled, bundled, and hot reloaded into the application. CSS updates are automatically live inj
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by sbking 12y ago
It was fixed about two years ago in October of 2012, when they added the accounts system and allow/deny rules. Since then they've added additional security features such as the browser policy package.
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by sbking 12y ago
Meteor doesn't use two-way data binding. You have template instances, which are wrapped domranges based on handlebars templates that call helper functions (one way binding). You then have event handlers for templates that you assign to
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by sbking 12y ago
No, it's a full-stack framework, using Node.js on the server and sending down a client app bundle containing all HTML templates and JS. The client and server then communicate exclusively with JSON through a purpose-invented pubsub WebS