Microscope is a simple social news app that lets you share links, comment, and vote on them.
It was built with Meteor as a companion app to The Meteor Book, and is the "little brother" of Telescope, the (much more complex) open-source social news app that was the inspiration for the book.
Microscope itself is free and open-source, and is a good example of common Meteor app patterns such as:
- Routing
- User Accounts
- Notifications
- Errors
- Publications/Subscriptions
- Permissions
The commits to this repository are organized in a very linear fashion, corresponding to progress throughout the book. Commits are tagged in the format chapterX-Y, indicating the Yth commit of chapter X.
Also, note that as the book focuses on development, all CSS is committed in a single commit early on.
There are 2 branches in this repository which correspond to advanced code that is covered in sidebars of the book, and outside of the main code progression. They are tagged sidebarX-Y, corresponding to the sidebar number in the book.