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Meteor 0.8.0: Introducing the Blaze templating engine

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Re: Meteor 0.8.0: Introducing the Blaze templating engine

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jquery compatibility is huge, awesome!

I am a new developer. I've used meteor for a couple toy projects, and found it really easy to get started. past the basics however, I found it really hard to get answers. I'm currently trying to write a simple backbone + node app to get my head around all the things meteor does automagically.

Are there any plans for learning resources coming from the meteor team?

Re: Meteor 0.8.0: Introducing the Blaze templating engine

#4

jquery compatibility is huge, awesome! I am a new developer. I've used meteor for a couple toy projects, and found it really easy to get started. past the basics however, I found it really hard to get answers. I'm currently trying to write a simple backbone + node app to get my head around all the things meteor does automagically. Are there any plans for learning resources coming from the meteor team?

A great learning resource is Discover Meteor - http://www.discovermeteor.com (purchase required, but great value for money, as it's been regularly updated since its release).

The videos on Evented Mind are fantastic to learn from as well - https://www.eventedmind.com (recently introduced a subscription model, though, some of the videos are still free to play).

Re: Meteor 0.8.0: Introducing the Blaze templating engine

#5

jquery compatibility is huge, awesome! I am a new developer. I've used meteor for a couple toy projects, and found it really easy to get started. past the basics however, I found it really hard to get answers. I'm currently trying to write a simple backbone + node app to get my head around all the things meteor does automagically. Are there any plans for learning resources coming from the meteor team?

Another hearty recommendation for Discover Meteor.

Re: Meteor 0.8.0: Introducing the Blaze templating engine

#6
post #4

jquery compatibility is huge, awesome! I am a new developer. I've used meteor for a couple toy projects, and found it really easy to get started. past the basics however, I found it really hard to get answers. I'm currently trying to write a simple backbone + node app to get my head around all the things meteor does automagically. Are there any plans for learning resources coming from the meteor team?

A great learning resource is Discover Meteor - http://www.discovermeteor.com (purchase required, but great value for money, as it's been regularly updated since its release). The videos on Evented Mind are fantastic to learn from as well - https://www.eventedmind.com (recently introduced a subscription model, though, some of the videos are still free to play).

Also a Pluralsight course.

http://pluralsight.com/courses/meteorjs-fundamentals-single-...

I will try it out this weekend.

Re: Meteor 0.8.0: Introducing the Blaze templating engine

#7
post #4

jquery compatibility is huge, awesome! I am a new developer. I've used meteor for a couple toy projects, and found it really easy to get started. past the basics however, I found it really hard to get answers. I'm currently trying to write a simple backbone + node app to get my head around all the things meteor does automagically. Are there any plans for learning resources coming from the meteor team?

A great learning resource is Discover Meteor - http://www.discovermeteor.com (purchase required, but great value for money, as it's been regularly updated since its release). The videos on Evented Mind are fantastic to learn from as well - https://www.eventedmind.com (recently introduced a subscription model, though, some of the videos are still free to play).

Meteor should just use some of that $12MM to give this book away.

Re: Meteor 0.8.0: Introducing the Blaze templating engine

#9
Can anyone speak to the difference in approach between Blaze and React? Or are they doing essentially the same thing?

At first glance, this seems much better in terms of programmer productivity, given that it uses logicless templates rather than embedding HTML inside JS code. But I'd be curious if it's less performant.

Re: Meteor 0.8.0: Introducing the Blaze templating engine

#10

jquery compatibility is huge, awesome! I am a new developer. I've used meteor for a couple toy projects, and found it really easy to get started. past the basics however, I found it really hard to get answers. I'm currently trying to write a simple backbone + node app to get my head around all the things meteor does automagically. Are there any plans for learning resources coming from the meteor team?

Discover Meteor is great - another recommendation.

Recently rebuilt a client app in Meteor, ran into a few hurdles that I think are just part of the learning curve.

A few times I have come to the github wiki page & found some helpful tips: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki

http://www.meteorpedia.com/ is in pretty active development, lots of links and the guys who run it are active on the Google Group also.

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