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#2How many pages does the book have? Even with the discount: $30 is way too much for a tech book IMO. Maybe $20 would be doable.
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#3I love that they're including a repository. Looking at the code history is the best way to learn.
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#4In case anyone is wondering, Meteor (http://meteor.com/) is a web framework which promises to make building real time web apps very easy. Its written in javascript and uses the node.js run time but doesn't play nicely with npm packages. Up until a recent version, it had no support but now you can write a wrapper to use a specific package.
Discover Meteor (formally known as "The Meteor Book") is a book that teaches how to build a social news reader called Microscope, a simplified version of Telescope (Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4840032).
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#5How many pages does the book have? Even with the discount: $30 is way too much for a tech book IMO. Maybe $20 would be doable.
I agree. Twenty dollars feels like the sweet spot to me. And the $30 price is only with the launch discount! It's "retail" price is $39! I don't even pay that on Amazon for tech books. At that price I'll wait to pick this up.
That said, I think the meteor platform looks like the "next big thing" and I'm excited to learn it from this book or elsewhere.
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#6A quick observation: 14+ chapters in the book and nothing on testing? At least, I did not find anything that talked about it.
Is it because there are no standards defined about testing Meteor apps or is Meteor being presented as a framework that does not need testing (hence, should not be used in production)?
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#7How many pages does the book have? Even with the discount: $30 is way too much for a tech book IMO. Maybe $20 would be doable.
If the information in the book (regardless of page count) gives you insight into a new technology that you can use to expand your career, is $30 really too much? If you're a contractor billing at market rates in SF, $30 is one-third to one-fifth of a single hour's income.
Time to start valuing books based on knowledge contained rather than paper weight.
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#8In case anyone is wondering, Meteor ( http://meteor.com/ ) is a web framework which promises to make building real time web apps very easy. Its written in javascript and uses the node.js run time but doesn't play nicely with npm packages. Up until a recent version, it had no support but now you can write a wrapper to use a specific package. Discover Meteor (formally known as "The Meteor Book") is a book that teaches…
Author here. Thanks for the summary! Just a small clarification: the book doesn't teach you how to build Telescope, it teaches you how to build Microscope, a simplified version of Telescope that we built specifically for the book.
Microscope's code is a lot cleaner than Telescope's, and is also open-source: http://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/Microscope
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#9In case anyone is wondering, Meteor ( http://meteor.com/ ) is a web framework which promises to make building real time web apps very easy. Its written in javascript and uses the node.js run time but doesn't play nicely with npm packages. Up until a recent version, it had no support but now you can write a wrapper to use a specific package. Discover Meteor (formally known as "The Meteor Book") is a book that teaches…
Author here. Thanks for the summary! Just a small clarification: the book doesn't teach you how to build Telescope, it teaches you how to build Micro scope, a simplified version of Telescope that we built specifically for the book. Microscope's code is a lot cleaner than Telescope's, and is also open-source: http://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/Microscope
Thanks for the clarification. I'll update my comment.
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#10A quick observation: 14+ chapters in the book and nothing on testing? At least, I did not find anything that talked about it. Is it because there are no standards defined about testing Meteor apps or is Meteor being presented as a framework that does not need testing (hence, should not be used in production)?
It's the first reason. There's nothing built-in to Meteor right now to help you test and although some people are starting to figure out good ways to do it as we speak, we feel like the dust hasn't really settled on the best way to do testing in Meteor.
As soon as we feel we've got a good answer for it we'll include something in the book to point people in the right direction.