possibilities

From Meteor's documentation:

In Meteor, your server code runs in a single thread per request, not in the asynchronous callback style typical of Node. We find the linear execution model a better fit for the typical server code in a Meteor application.

This guide serves as a mini-tour of tools, trix and patterns that can be used to run async code in Meteor.

Basic async

Sometimes we need to run async code in Meteor.methods. For this we create a Future to block until the async code has finished. This pattern can be seen all over Meteor's own codebase:

bricef

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

/*
 * MCrypt API available online:
 * http://linux.die.net/man/3/mcrypt
 */
#include <mcrypt.h>

dealforest

package net.dealforest.sample.crypt;

import javax.crypto.BadPaddingException;
import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException;
import javax.crypto.NoSuchPaddingException;
import javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;

import java.security.InvalidKeyException;

zhaoyou

/*
		12306 Auto Query => A javascript snippet to help you book tickets online.
		Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Jingqin Lynn
		
		Includes jQuery
		Copyright 2011, John Resig
		Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
		http://jquery.org/license

		Includes Sizzle.js

bithavoc

/*
Asymmetric Encryption Sample in Node.js: Encrypt and Decrypt using Password as a key(SECRET_KEY)
Algorithm: des-ede3-cbc (Three key Triple-DES EDE in CBC mode)
[email protected]
@thepumpkin
*/

var assert = require('assert')
var crypto = require('crypto')
var Buffer = require('buffer').Buffer