Chapter 5. Fully reactive editing
This chapter covers
- Building reactive forms
- Using reactive data bindings to update views
- Working with unsynchronized, or local, collections
- Displaying collection data within forms and performing updates reactively
- Implementing a simple notifications system
In chapter 4 you created a fully functional yet basic application that allows users to select, view, add, and delete houses. Because you used reactive data sources, you didn’t have to manipulate the DOM tree—for example, adding a new option element to the drop-down list when you created a new house—Meteor’s reactivity took care of it for you.
The most common approach to front-end development is manual DOM manipulation, but it’s tedious and error-prone. ...
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