Web Development

In one of the projects I’ve been recently working on, I needed i18n support for forms generated with AutoForm. For those who don’t know: Autoform is a schema-based form generator. ​Since Meteor forms and ecosystem aren’t mature yet, this turned out to be an interesting task which ended up with creating a new package that we’ve published for the benefit of the Meteor community.​

The purpose of this post is to show you how to create a very simple blog app in Meteor. This tutorial, just as the development itself, should be time-efficient, so instead of writing everything from scratch, we’re going to use packages that can help you speed up your development cycle and be more productive.

What is Backbone Local.Storage? Backbone Local.Storage is a method which helps frontend developers to store the data locally. When someone starts making a new application and they need to save some data that they added in their project, and still, they do not have any information downloaded from the backend, they can use Local.Storage.

More and more apps are being created with an API support. Growing popularity of Angular.js and Backbone.js makes it even more important part of new projects. Why is that? There is a trend to seperate backend from frontend not only in terms of logic but also to split the project into two seperate ones - pure API backend and client-side-only frontend. What’s all the fuss about?

A couple months ago, after signing a contract to build an unusual e-commerce site, we were forced to make a choice. We’d build the site either from scratch or on top of existing solutions. After a few days of getting our heads around the topic, we decided to take on the latter option. Since we cherish Ruby, we chose the most popular Ruby based e-commerce engine: Spree.