/meteor-slack-react

A Meteor version of Slack in React 15.x

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meteor-slack-react

A chat application made in 25 steps, and designed to look a little bit like Slack, by using Meteor, React, FlowRouter and Tracker we get a high performance chat application.

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 location in Gothenburg Sweden.

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

Prerequisites

Getting started

Clone the repository:

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

We created the code for this step just by calling:

meteor create meteor-slack-react --release METEOR@1.3-rc.13

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 help to improve and make this workshop awesome (in alphabetical order):