Meteor + React is Here - Learn Meteor 1.3 (Beta), React, React-Bootstrap, and Mantra

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Hey everyone!

My book, Meteor + React, just went live! It’s a concise little book, just under 80 pages, teaching how to build apps using the current beta of Meteor 1.3, React, React-Bootstrap, and Mantra.

You can learn more and get the first three chapters free here: http://kenrogers.co/meteor-react

Or jump straight to the purchase page here: https://gum.co/meteorreact2

The book will be continually updated as Meteor 1.3 and Mantra are finalized and new best practices are established.

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Looks fantastic! I just purchased my copy. :smile:

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@kenrogers Curious about stateless components in Mantra. I see you used React-Bootstrap in your project in the book. Did you cover Bootstrap modals? As in here https://react-bootstrap.github.io/components.html#modals-live …it uses state to open and close the modal. I’m wondering how to do this without state.

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@townmulti starless components is not a must in Mantra. You can create component by extending React.Component.

Why you can’t do it to manage app state inside the component.

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@arunoda I will look more into it. Thanks for the response.

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Looking forward to buy this book! Reviews from anyone who have already used it?

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We just released a really easy method to get React and Tracker integration, one cannot make it easier and the implementation can’t be lighter, it’s ridiculous how easy we’ve made it.

Bonus feature: Server Side Rendering (see the clip ;))

Learn how we build easy React Components with Meteor 1.2 and Tracker using Tracker.Component:

Demo and instructions for 1.3 is on the way, just not tonight :smile:

Cheers from the folks at Studio Interact

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@kenrogers, does your book explain how to include a package like accounts-ui and access it from a Mantra component?

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It shows you how to add accounts-password and wire up a login & registration component but not actually use it. The book feels very light on content and most of the features are half complete so I would suggest you wait for the updated version of the book.

Meanwhile, check out:
Mantra
GitHub - mantrajs/meteor-mantra-kickstarter: Kickstart your meteor mantra development
GitHub - mantrajs/mantra-sample-blog-app: A sample blog app built with Mantra

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Thanks very much for this info, @morganjackson.

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Hi @timbrandin,

Thanks for this awesome package! :thumbsup:

I believe you should post this on a separate topic and tag it as announce, so that the community will see it right away.

Cheers!

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@kenrogers, I just purchase your Meteor + React book and am enjoying it and learning a lot!

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Hi,
first three chapters free link showing 404 Error, did anyone read it. I’m curious to know about this book.
Regards,
John, ReactJS Trainer

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I would not get this one. The information is outdated and I’m not currently selling it. I’m working on a new version using Meteor 1.4 that does not use Mantra, the online version is free and it’s about 3/4 done right now: http://meteorandreact.com