Appendix.  

The Meteor stack is a member of the MEAN family, which means it’s powered by Node.js, an event-driven, highly scalable runtime for JavaScript on the server.

Meteor uses a single codebase to create applications on the server, the browser, and mobile devices.

After transferring all files over HTTP, Meteor uses a WebSocket connection to exchange data with all clients. It uses the standardized DDP protocol.

Clients get their data from the ...

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