Meet & Greet + Introduction to Meteor and Node.js

Hello Meteorites!

Thank you for joining Meteor Noida! We are very happy to announce that we have an exciting series of meetups planned for all of you.

For our first event, let's all meet and get to know each other over stimulating discussions on Meteor and Node.js.

Those who are new to Meteor or Node.js, worry not, we will also provide an Introduction to Meteor and Node.js. This way everyone can take full advantage of our upcoming advanced sessions.

1st Event:

What - Meet & Greet + Introduction to Meteor and Node.js

When - 30 April 2017, 11 AM

Where - NodeXperts
E-29, First Floor
Sector-11
Noida - 201301

The introductory session will segue into our next meetup topic:
Microservices with Meteor (To be held in May 2017)

Looking forward to meeting all of you in person and taking this forward. With your enthusiastic participation and support, we aim to build a stellar Meteor community right here in the heart of Noida.

Best,
The Meteor Noida Team

[ SCHEDULE ]

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Introduction to Node.js:

• Basic intro to Javascript

• ES6 concepts

• How Node works on the browser

• Server side JavaScript - Single threaded and asynchronous

• Event loop working on the server side

• Advantages and disadvantages along with ideal usage scenarios

[Drinks break]

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Introduction to MongoDB:

• Intro to NoSql, how is it different from Relational DB (MySql)

• Why and when to use NoSql

• Cursor concepts

• CRUD operations

• Sharding

• Advantages and disadvantages

• Where we cannot use it

[Drinks break]

Meteor Workshop:

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Introduction:

• What is Meteor?

• DDP and Mini Mongo concepts

• How reactivity is achieved using DDP

• Advantages and disadvantages

• Where we can use and cannot use

• Structure of Meteor application

[Snacks Break]

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Templating Engine:

• What is it?

• How it compiles

• How we can initialize and define templates in Meteor

• Usage of Spacebars

• Routes in Meteor

• Helpers and events

• Basic layout

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Publications / Subscription, Methods:

• Collections and schemas

• How pub/sub works

• How to define pub/sub on client and server

• Methods work, this.userId, Meteor.user()

• Test cases (TDD)

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Questions and Answers

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Conclusion and next session details

------ Requirements for full-benefit of Meteor Workshop ------

• Laptop (with power cord)

Installed software:

• MongoDB
• Node.js
• Meteor

Software installation guide for Linux: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JJqHuEVxqVZO9JSyxeEuAtQNJ3r5k6bqVQIqSFDg5uk/edit