Meteor Programming in 24 Hours

With Meteor, you can build powerful web and mobile apps stunningly fast -- including the apps that drive tomorrow's winning cloud-based businesses! Now, in just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn all the skills and techniques you'll need. Each short, easy lesson in Meteor in 24 hours, Sams Teach Yourself builds on all that's come before. You'll learn all of Meteor's capabilities as you craft three powerful apps packed with code you'll actually want to Stephen O'Brien reviews the basics of JavaScript within Meteor's framework, and then shifts to CoffeeScript to take advantage of its exceptionally readable syntax. Similarly, you'll review all you need to know about CSS, and then switch to Sass, the world's most popular and powerful CSS pre-processor. As you work, you'll master techniques including fully responsive design, effective source code management, unit testing, cloud hosting, the use of pre-built packages to save time, and much Step-by-step instructions walk you through common questions, issues, and tasks; Q-and-As, Quizzes, and Exercises build and test your knowledge; "Did You Know?" tips offer insider advice and shortcuts; and "Watch Out!" alerts help you avoid pitfalls. By the time you're finished, you'll be comfortable building virtually anything with Meteor -- including apps that create high-profit cloud-based businesses!