Microscope Revisited

Discovering Meteor's Microscope was a great way to get an introduction to the Meteor framework. I wanted to continue learning , so I used the Microscope project as a test bed for teaching myself. Hopefully it can be helpful to others who are looking to continue their education as well.

Changes

This project is upgraded to Meteor 1.2 and rebuilt using the following packages:

• kadira:flow-router instead of iron:router for faster, client-side routing
• arilla:flow-router-helpers
• kadira:blaze-layout
• meteorhacks:subs-manager for caching subscriptions on the client
• meteorhacks:fast-render to send initial DDP data to the client and decrease pageload time

##Branches There are different branches in this repo for the different steps of refactoring:

• v1 is the complete Microscope project from DiscoveringMeteor (written by me as I read through the book so there may be slight differences)
• v2-w/karidahq-packages is rebuilt using the kadira/meteorhacks packages listed above for better performance
• v3-local-packages is refactored so that all code is inside local packages for better code organization and separation of concerns

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Changes for FlowRouter

Using a different router required a few changes from the original Microscope project, including:

• auth is implemented at template-level, with global template helpers 'canShow' and 'authInProcess'
• the PostsListController is now just a plain JavaScript function/class
• the postsList template JS file now includes a getCurrentPostsListController() method because the posts cursor is created within the template itself instead of at the router level when postsLimit changes in the URL. Ideally all subscriptions would be at the template level, but registering them in the router is required for kadira:fast-render (for now).