Meteor Slack (Now called SpaceTalk)

A chat application made in 25 steps, and designed to look a little bit like Slack.

With channels for multiple users, markdown, gravatar, an autosizing textarea and a list of channels in a sidebar.

Disclaimer

This code is part of the Meteor Workshop that takes place on the 14th of May 2015 in Gothenburg Sweden.

It was made solely do demonstrate the efficiency and the simple nature of Meteor.

Prerequisites

Git
Meteor

Getting started

Clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:studiointeract/meteor-slack.git

We created the code for this step just by calling meteor create meteor-slack in the terminal (console) and then added what was generated to the repo on the master branch (excluding this awesome README).

How to follow this guide?

Each page on the presentation on slides.com presents tasks that you are supposed to try and solve, if you get stuck or fall behind the group you can always ask an expert (if you're participating) or checkout the solution on the next step.

Follow the steps in the presentation

Navigate to the presentation on slides.com.

This guide starts on the master branch.

Checkout the next step

git checkout step-# // <-- Replace # with the number of your current step in the presentation.

Credits

Thanks to @timbrandin who created this material, and the experts who helped to improve and make this workshop awesome (in alphabetical order):

Andreas Rolén (@adderollen)
Johan Brook (@johanbrook)
Oscar (@oscrse)
Patrik (@gopatrik)
Per Fredelius (@worldsayshi)
Robin Lindh Nilsson (@RobinerdMusic)
Tim Brandin (@timbrandin)
Tobias Tikka (@tobiastikka)

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.