Meteor stack

Shared code base

Works out of the box

Works out of the box

IOS App

Distributed Data Protocol

• REST for websocket

• Based on JSON.

• Technically, DDP can be implemented on top of any duplex transport.

• Meteor’s current implementation is based on WebSockets and SockJS

DDP: Remote Procedure Calls

DDP: Manages data

Folder structure

Templates

Helpers

Events

Collections

Collections

Publications and subscriptions

Methods

Routing

Routing

Routing

So much more…

• Latency Compensation. – On the client, Meteor prefetches data and simulates

models to make it look like server method calls return instantly.

• Meteor is open source and integrates with existing open source tools and frameworks.

• Services– like an official package server and a build farm.

• Command line tools

• Hot deploys

Where Meteor Falls Too Short

• View framework

• Already have a backend