Meteor

Blueprint to becoming a React Native Developer

I’m a big believer in React Native — if you’re reading this you’re likely interested in it as well. The Javascript ecosystem is quickly evolving and it’s hard to make choices without often following the latest buzz.

Memoize in Meteor to speed up aggregate and complex functions

Some functions take a long time to run, this can be especially true with Mongo Aggregation functions. To improve this, we can save the results of the function into a database (server side or client side) and read the result…

Using Meteor as a Backend for Your Apps [Presentation]

Hey, long time no see! I just wrapped up a presentation (about 5 minutes ago) on using Meteor exclusively as a backend for your app. I wanted to share that with you…

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React Native Meteor: OAuth with Facebook

This is a bit more advanced of a tutorial — if you’re going through this tutorial you should already be comfortable establishing a DDP connection from React Native to Meteor. In this example I’ll be using react-native-meteor, it’s still a work in progress but…

Why Meteor is the Perfect Backend for React Native

There’s no such thing as a perfect technology stack. If you’re asking if X stack can handle the same traffic/load as Facebook I’ll tell you now that it won’t — nothing out of the box will. It’ll take a lot of smart people to handle those…

Connecting React Native and Meteor

A question I commonly get when discussing my React Native Meteor boilerplate is in regards to what is actually going on with the two apps. How are things set up?

This is a great question and will make debugging any issues you have much easier…

Web Development and the Spaghetti Syndrome

One of my favorite foods growing up was spaghetti. As a little kid, the prospect of…