Meteor Web Application Development Cookbook

Over 65 hands-on recipes that cover every aspect of building and deploying elegant, full-stack web applications with Meteor About This Book Save time and effort while fully leveraging the entire Meteor technology stack Quickly reference and implement the most powerful and useful features of one of the hottest and fastest growing JavaScript frameworks Master cutting-edge techniques used by the experts to build elegant, robust applications Who This Book Is For This book is meant for developers of all experience levels looking to create mobile and full-stack web applications in JavaScript. Many of the simple recipes can easily be followed by less-experienced developers, while some of the advanced recipes will require extensive knowledge of existing web, mobile, and server technologies. Any application or enterprise web developer looking to create full-stack JavaScript-based apps will benefit from the recipes and concepts covered in this book. What You Will Learn Create and deploy user-friendly, touch-enabled web applications Rapidly build robust, responsive user interfaces Integrate any npm/Node package in minutes Leverage isomorphic JavaScript to develop full-stack applications Publish your own reusable custom packages Quickly implement user accounts compatible with Facebook, Google, Twitter, and more Convert external API streams into reactive, self-updating infographics Secure and optimize your Mongo data collections In Detail Meteor is an incredibly powerful, impossibly fun platform used to build modern, responsive web and mobile applications Starting with simple recipes designed for quick reference, and culminating in advanced recipes that walk you through building and deploying a complete application, Meteor Cookbook covers all the major areas of Meteor development, including lesser-known and undocumented features. You will have instant access to step-by-step recipes, accompanied by clear, concise explanations on optimizing your workflow. Whether used as a learning resource or as a quick-reference guide, this book will surely earn a permanent spot on your development work desk!

About This Book

• Learn about distributed indexing and real-time optimization to change index data on fly
• Index data from various sources and web crawlers using built-in analyzers and tokenizers
• This step-by-step guide is packed with real-life examples on indexing data

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers who want to increase their experience of indexing in Solr by learning about the various index handlers, analyzers, and methods available in Solr. Beginner level Solr development skills are expected.

What You Will Learn

• Get to know the basic features of Solr indexing and the analyzers/tokenizers available
• Index XML/JSON data in Solr using the HTTP Post tool and cURL command
• Work with Data Import Handler to index data from a database
• Use Apache Tika with Solr to index word documents, PDFs, and much more
• Utilize Apache Nutch and Solr integration to index crawled data from web pages
• Update indexes in real-time data feeds
• Discover techniques to index multilanguage and distributed data in Solr
• Combine the various indexing techniques into a real-life working example of an online shopping web application

In Detail

Apache Solr is a widely used, open source enterprise search server that delivers powerful indexing and searching features. These features help fetch relevant information from various sources and documentation.

This fast-paced guide starts by helping you set up Solr. You'll quickly move on to indexing text and boosting the indexing time. Next, you'll focus on basic techniques for indexing a structured data source through Data Import Handler.

Moving on, you will learn techniques to perform real-time indexing and atomic updates. We'll help you set up a cluster of Solr servers that combine fault tolerance and high availability. You will also gain insights into working scenarios of different aspects of Solr and how to use Solr with e-commerce data. By the end of the book, you will be competent and confident working with indexing and will have a good knowledge base to efficiently program elements.

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionWhat you will learnCreate and deploy userfriendly, touchenabled web applicationsRapidly build robust, responsive user interfacesIntegrate any npm/Node package in minutesLeverage isomorphic JavaScript to develop fullstack applicationsPublish your own reusable custom packagesQuickly implement user accounts compatible with Facebook, Google, Twitter, and moreConvert external API streams into reactive, selfupdating infographicsSecure and optimize your Mongo data collectionsWho this book is forThis book is meant for developers of all experience levels looking to create mobile and full-stack web applications in JavaScript. Many of the simple recipes can easily be followed by less-experienced developers, while some of the advanced recipes will require extensive knowledge of existing web, mobile, and server technologies. Any application or enterprise web developer looking to create full-stack JavaScript-based apps will benefit from the recipes and concepts covered in this book.