Chris Wessels chriswessels

#Meteor and Self-hosted Infrastructure

Meteor is an eye-opening JavaScript framework that runs on both the client and the server, giving developers a revolutionary take on software engineering. If you are not familiar with Meteor, I urge you to visit their website.

##An overview

In this brief gist, I am going to discuss the process of setting up a server (in my case, a VPS) to host Meteor applications.

My experience with Meteor has been brief, however it has not taken much demonstration for me to realise the significance of this stellar framework. Let's jump right in!

#Icons

PNGs

Name	Size
iphone	60x60
iphone_2x	120x120
iphone_3x	180x180
ipad	76x76

App client-side performance plan

Two pronged approach

Create the illusion of speed
Increase speed

Illusion of speed

Instead of issuing UI feedback after the rendering cycle, we should push feedback into the UI immediately and then begin the rendering cycle. This creates the illusion of speed as the satisfied that their input has been received. Patch UI directly with jQuery (no Tracker invalidations).

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am chriswessels on github.
I am chriswessels (https://keybase.io/chriswessels) on keybase.
I have a public key ASCEyuVv-dDPgns6KA3sEVNeZhXLyB_oJK_Zn_KA3MGGygo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

	{
	// Makes tabs with modified files more visible
	"highlight_modified_tabs": true,

	// Set to true to ensure the last line of the file ends in a newline
	// character when saving
	"ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,

	// Set to true to removing trailing white space on save
	"trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,

	#!upstart
	description "Leaderboard Upstart"
	author "Chris Wessels"

	env APP_NAME='leaderboard'
	env PORT='2000'
	env ROOT_URL='http://www.your-app.com'
	env NODE_BIN='/home/meteor/.nvm/v0.8.24/bin/node'

	env SCRIPT_FILE="bundle/main.js" # Entry point for the nodejs app

	#worker_processes 2;

	events {
	worker_connections 1024;
	}

	http {
	include mime.types;
	gzip on;

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