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Gain insights into Meteor.js, explore JavaScript concepts, and discover how to build full-stack applications with React integration, email support, and Stripe payment processing.

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Meteor.js is a Node.js framework for developing JavaScript applications. It's used to create full-stack applications that use a single language on both the server and client sides. Meteor.js is easy to use and simplifies the development of web applications.

This course will begin by discussing the fundamental concepts of Meteor.js before moving on to refresh the learner's knowledge of some key aspects of JavaScript used in React, another JavaScript framework. Then, through hands-on experience, you will learn how to build a production-grade Meteor.js application with a React frontend. Following that, you'll learn how to set up an SMTP server to send transactional emails and how to integrate Stripe into your Meteor.js application to accept payments.

By the end of this course, you will be able to create a full-stack application from scratch using Meteor.js and feel confident working with MongoDB as well. You will also be able to integrate Stripe into any Meteor.js application you create.

Building Full Stack Applications Using Meteor.js

## Meteor authentication
Authentication is a means of identifying an application’s users before granting access to web resources. Meteor provides a built-in way to add user functionality without having to write an authentication system ourselves. The basic workflow of a web application provides a mechanism for users to **log in** and **register** accounts.

Not every application needs authentication, so the user authentication functionality isn’t available by default in created projects. We need to install the account functionality through the terminal. We’ll create a little app, install the Meteor account package, and get familiar with the package before installing it to the **online bookshop application** that we’re building throughout this chapter.

We’ll install a login provider on the terminal by typing `meteor add accounts-password`. Meteor creates a `users` collection in MongoDB after the installation of the `accounts-password` package. This collection is used for the management of users’ accounts.

The coding playground at the end of this lesson implements authentication in a MeteorJS application. We have a Meteor Method called `createAccount` inside the `imports/api/methods.js` file. On **line 2**, we import `Accounts` from `meteor/accounts-base`. This package was added to the project when we installed the `accounts-password` package.

The `createAccount` method is called from the client. On **line 6**, we destructure the user object that’s passed to the function to get the `username` and `password` passed from the client. On line 7, a check is performed to determine if a user with the `username` exists by calling `Accounts.findUserByUsername`. If no user already exists with the passed `username`, a new user account is created by calling `Accounts.createUser()` with the user details. The `Accounts.createUser` method logs the user in automatically upon successful account creation if called on the client. If it’s called on the server, it returns the `_id` of the newly-created user back to the client.

# Meteor authentication
Authentication is a means of identifying an application’s users before granting access to web resources. Meteor provides a built-in way to add user functionality without having to write an authentication system ourselves. The basic workflow of a web application provides a mechanism for users to **log in** and **register** accounts.

Not every application needs authentication, so the user authentication functionality isn’t available by default in created projects. We need to install the account functionality through the terminal. We’ll create a little app, install the Meteor account package, and get familiar with the package before installing it to the **online bookshop application** that we’re building throughout this chapter.

We’ll install a login provider on the terminal by typing `meteor add accounts-password`. Meteor creates a `users` collection in MongoDB after the installation of the `accounts-password` package. This collection is used for the management of users’ accounts.

The coding playground at the end of this lesson implements authentication in a MeteorJS application. We have a Meteor Method called `createAccount` inside the `imports/api/methods.js` file. On **line 2**, we import `Accounts` from `meteor/accounts-base`. This package was added to the project when we installed the `accounts-password` package.

The `createAccount` method is called from the client. On **line 6**, we destructure the user object that’s passed to the function to get the `username` and `password` passed from the client. On line 7, a check is performed to determine if a user with the `username` exists by calling `Accounts.findUserByUsername`. If no user already exists with the passed `username`, a new user account is created by calling `Accounts.createUser()` with the user details. The `Accounts.createUser` method logs the user in automatically upon successful account creation if called on the client. If it’s called on the server, it returns the `_id` of the newly-created user back to the client.

Learn about the authentication system built into MeteorJS.

Getting Started

Meteor Framework

Introduction to MeteorJS

Working With Data

A Pop Quiz On Data Access With Meteor

A Simple Idea Vote Application

JavaScript Refresher

Pop Quiz: JavaScript Refresher for React Development

An Overview of React

Pop Quiz: React

Coding an Online Bookshop

Deployment

Appendix

Meteor Authentication System

Meteor authentication