Slava Kim recently implemented Redis in Meteor with the livedata and miniredis packages. I’ve been curious how much faster it is than Mongodb. I’m stuck on a plane so it’s either this or watch Dolphin Tale 2. Write, read and delete 1,000 times. On the client. redis set: 228ms redis get: 18 redis del: 189 redis…

Meteor’s check package is great for catching bugs. I put it at the top of most functions to make sure that the values passed in are correct. function (num) { check(num, Number); // do important stuff with num } Recently I had some code that divided by zero. Infinity is…

Setting the fields when using collection.find and collection.findOne is very important. This is from the Meteor docs. Note that when fields are specified, only changes to the included fields will trigger callbacks inobserve, observeChanges and invalidations in reactive computations using this cursor. Careful use of fields allows for more fine-grained reactivity for computations that don’t depend on an entire document.

Here are a few things that I’ve learned while working on Dominus that I wish I had known when I started working with Meteor. Local template variables Meteor sessions are great but sometimes you want a local variable that you can pass between helpers, events, and created/rendered functions. Here’s an example with sessions. …

Sign up at https://dominusgame.net to play. — Updates since last game. Dominus is now open source on Github. https://github.com/dan335/dominus If you would like to help improve Dominus let me know. New battle system. Battles are no longer instant and can involve any number of people. Want to take down a large castle? Team up with an ally and attack together. Want to retreat? Just move your army away from the battle. Small battles are fairly quick and large battles might last a day.