Prototyping with Meteor

Meteor is far more than a quick prototyping tool, but it sure is great for prototyping. In this tutorial, Tom Coleman will walk us through the process of turning a simple HTML wireframe into a functional application in a surprisingly simple number of steps. We’ll be creating a simple wireframe of a chatroom application. The process he's trying to demonstrate is starting with a pure HTML/CSS wireframe, done in Meteor for convenience, which can then very easily be transformed into a real application, thanks to the ease of Meteor development.

Setting up a More Complex App

A previous Meteor tutorial on Nettuts+ demonstrated how to install Meteor and build a simple application using the meteor command line tool. In this tutorial, we are going to do things a bit differently, and use Meteorite.

Meteorite is a community created wrapper for Meteor that allows us to use non-core packages created by other members of the Meteor community. Although a built-in third party package system is planned for Meteor itself, as of the time of this writing, there is no support, bar the set of packages that are supported by the Meteor core team. So Meteorite was created to allow us (the community) to work around this limitation, and publish our packages on Atmosphere, the Meteor package repository.