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Read Discover Meteor for free today

82 points by sgdesign 13y ago

sgdesign 13y ago
We've also set up a chatroom if you have any questions: http://chat.discovermeteor.com http://chat.discovermeteor.com
ouuyeah 13y ago
DiscoverMeteor rules! http://tlk.io/discovermeteor http://tlk.io/discovermeteor
gabrarlz 13y ago
So well written. Git commits and the instances are such a nice way to show the code running! Congrats and thanks!
- sgdesign 13y ago
  Thanks! We think it's especially useful since it lets you take advantage of GitHub's code browsing features (diffs, history, search, etc.)
  - gabrarlz 13y ago
    The only downside is to keep it dated since Meteor are changing fast.
pchristensen 13y ago
Wrote up my thoughts on DM: http://pchristensen.com/blog/articles/meteor-discovered/ http://pchristensen.com/blog/articles/meteor-discovered/ tl;dr: A+ tech book that I wish every tech writer would read and take to heart, plus Meteor looks great.
magic5227 13y ago
You should have made people Tweet or share a link to get access first!
gales 13y ago
Discover Meteor is worth every penny! In addition to being a handy resource, it's also kept very up-to-date, for example, numerous chapters were recently rewritten to use iron-router.
krrishd 13y ago
I'm so disappointed right now. I've really wanted to read this book for wuite a while, and it had to be available for free on finals week...really good book though, I guess it'll be worth saving up for considering how much more than a book it is.
aryehhoffman 13y ago
I purchased the book, and was happy with the purchase. However, the continuing emails attempting to "upsell" me have been a bit annoying.
- sgdesign 13y ago
  Sorry about that! We do send out emails when we have a special discount going on, but since that's only every couple months I thought that would be acceptable. Feel free to unsubscribe from our mailing list if you'd prefer not to receive them though.
  - arunoda 13y ago
    Isn't is possible to send those upsell messages to those who've not bought the book?
gvnonor 13y ago
Nice book, covers all the fundamentals well. Thanks to the authors for this gesture. Now a digression, while Meteor hasn't hit 1.0 yet, I still wish it had some form of MVVM support baked in instead of the simple/dumb templating with Handlebars. I find Handlebars incredibly frustrating due to its lack of propert reusability/composability. It makes sense for server side apps that have a small client-side codebase, but on its own it's seriously limited and you end up generating hacky html strings using helpers.
wavesounds 13y ago
How about 1/2 off the print edition while your at it? :-)
hrjet 13y ago
I started reading the book, and half way through realized that the meteor sites will not work when client side javascript is disabled. Is that correct? (I realize that a workaround could be to crawl your own site and serve it statically, but that's prone to pitfalls).
- meira 13y ago
  You're half right. Meteor is a great approach to create fast, responsive and reactive web apps and it relies on javascript. It makes no sense to disable javascript to navigate. If the problem is with search crawlers, the spiderable module take care of it (but it'll improve).
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timobile 13y ago
Nice idea to give free access to the book for one day. I bought it a few weeks ago can really recommend it. At the moment this is the only Meteor book I am aware of that covers all necessary topics to get you started. I experienced one minor issue though concerning reading the book on a kindle (paperwhite): https://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/book/issues/120 https://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/book/issues/120 Luckily there is a workaround for that by sending the PDF to your @kindle.com email address using the subject "convert". This fixes the font issues.
mot0rola 13y ago
This was one of the most pleasurable experiences I had building an app from a book. Kudos to all on the meteor team!

82 points by sgdesign 13y ago

sgdesign 13y ago

We've also set up a chatroom if you have any questions: http://chat.discovermeteor.com http://chat.discovermeteor.com

ouuyeah 13y ago

DiscoverMeteor rules! http://tlk.io/discovermeteor http://tlk.io/discovermeteor

gabrarlz 13y ago

So well written. Git commits and the instances are such a nice way to show the code running! Congrats and thanks!

sgdesign 13y ago
Thanks! We think it's especially useful since it lets you take advantage of GitHub's code browsing features (diffs, history, search, etc.)
- gabrarlz 13y ago
  The only downside is to keep it dated since Meteor are changing fast.

pchristensen 13y ago

Wrote up my thoughts on DM: http://pchristensen.com/blog/articles/meteor-discovered/ http://pchristensen.com/blog/articles/meteor-discovered/ tl;dr: A+ tech book that I wish every tech writer would read and take to heart, plus Meteor looks great.

magic5227 13y ago

You should have made people Tweet or share a link to get access first!

gales 13y ago

Discover Meteor is worth every penny! In addition to being a handy resource, it's also kept very up-to-date, for example, numerous chapters were recently rewritten to use iron-router.

krrishd 13y ago

I'm so disappointed right now. I've really wanted to read this book for wuite a while, and it had to be available for free on finals week...really good book though, I guess it'll be worth saving up for considering how much more than a book it is.

aryehhoffman 13y ago

I purchased the book, and was happy with the purchase. However, the continuing emails attempting to "upsell" me have been a bit annoying.

sgdesign 13y ago
Sorry about that! We do send out emails when we have a special discount going on, but since that's only every couple months I thought that would be acceptable. Feel free to unsubscribe from our mailing list if you'd prefer not to receive them though.
- arunoda 13y ago
  Isn't is possible to send those upsell messages to those who've not bought the book?

gvnonor 13y ago

Nice book, covers all the fundamentals well. Thanks to the authors for this gesture. Now a digression, while Meteor hasn't hit 1.0 yet, I still wish it had some form of MVVM support baked in instead of the simple/dumb templating with Handlebars. I find Handlebars incredibly frustrating due to its lack of propert reusability/composability. It makes sense for server side apps that have a small client-side codebase, but on its own it's seriously limited and you end up generating hacky html strings using helpers.

wavesounds 13y ago

How about 1/2 off the print edition while your at it? :-)

hrjet 13y ago

I started reading the book, and half way through realized that the meteor sites will not work when client side javascript is disabled. Is that correct? (I realize that a workaround could be to crawl your own site and serve it statically, but that's prone to pitfalls).

meira 13y ago
You're half right. Meteor is a great approach to create fast, responsive and reactive web apps and it relies on javascript. It makes no sense to disable javascript to navigate. If the problem is with search crawlers, the spiderable module take care of it (but it'll improve).
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timobile 13y ago

Nice idea to give free access to the book for one day. I bought it a few weeks ago can really recommend it. At the moment this is the only Meteor book I am aware of that covers all necessary topics to get you started. I experienced one minor issue though concerning reading the book on a kindle (paperwhite): https://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/book/issues/120 https://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/book/issues/120 Luckily there is a workaround for that by sending the PDF to your @kindle.com email address using the subject "convert". This fixes the font issues.

mot0rola 13y ago

This was one of the most pleasurable experiences I had building an app from a book. Kudos to all on the meteor team!