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The following example is from 0.5 - 0.7 days, and illustrates how to log an error when the database hasn't populated the client side cursor yet. Template.landingPage.postsList = function(){ try{ return Posts.find(); }catch(error){ //color code the error (red) console.error(erro...

The following uses the Chrome Logging API. If the .group() syntax is used in multiple templates, it will graphically organize the console logs from different templates into a hierarchical tree. You can also see how to inspect the current data context, and how to stringify data. Template.landingPa...

Simple example of using the Chrome Logging API. Template.landingPage.events({ 'click .selectItemButton':function(){ // color code and count the user interaction (blue) console.count('click .selectItemButton'); } });

Logging can often clutter up the console, so it's common to define log levels to control what detail of data is getting logged. A common pattern is to specify a log level variables. var DEBUG = false; var TRACE = false; Template.landingPage.events({ 'click .selectItemButton':function(){ ...

Some teams find that they want to leave console log statements in their code, but not have them display in production. They will override the logging functions if a variable isn't set (possibly an environment variable). Additionally, this may qualify as a security feature in some situations. if (...

A special mention should be made for the community developed LogLevel package. It appears to strike a balance between being lightweight and simple to use, while working well with Meteor's bundle pipeline and preserving line numbers and filenames. https://atmospherejs.com/practicalmeteor/loglevel ...

One favored approach to deploying to a server is to use Git or GitHub. This basically involves logging into your server, moving to the directory you want to run your app from, then cloning your files directly from GitHub. You then build your app on the server. This approach ensures that platform spe...

Alternatively, you may want to build your application, and then deploy it.. cd myapp meteor build --directory ../output cd .. scp output -r username@destination_host:/var/www/myapp-production

If you're running a replica set or have a need to shard your database, you'll want an upstart script that looks something like this: # /etc/init/myapp.conf description "myapp.mydomain.com" author "[email protected]" # used to be: start on startup # until we found som...

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As of Meteor 1.0.2, there's a new command shell which you can use to do interactive debugging and manage your app from the server side, just like you do with the Chrome Console on the client side! Check it out: meteor shell

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Template helpers are an essential part of Blaze and provide both business logic and reactivity to a Template. It is important to remember that Template helpers are actually reactive computations that are rerun whenever their dependencies change. Depending on your needs, Template helpers can be def...

// thecontroller.js $scope.sendVerifyEmail = function() { console.log('Email sent, whaaaaam!'); currentAuth.sendEmailVerification(); } // where currentAuth came from something like this: // routerconfig .... templateUrl: 'bla.html', resolve: { currentAuth:['Auth', functio...

Ensure that you install the correct npm dependencies (babel decided to split itself into a bunch of packages, something to do with "peer dependencies"): npm install webpack webpack-node-externals babel-core babel-loader babel-preset-react babel-preset-latest --save webpack.config.js: mo...

This is very common, you memorize a path to a file or folder, you open up Vim and try to write what you've just memorized, but you are not 100% sure it's correct, so you close the editor and start over. When you want the path completion feature, and you have a file /home/ubuntu/my_folder/my_file a...

To delete some lines of text when you don't know exact number of lines to delete, you try 10dd , 5dd , 3dd until you remove all the lines. Relative line numbers solves this problem, suppose we have a file containing : sometimes, you see a block of text. You want to remove it but you cannot d...

The following command executes :command on lines 23 to 56: :23,56command NB: Ranges are inclusive by default.

In the following command the range starts 6 lines above the current line and ends 3 lines below: :-6,+3command

. represents the current line but it can also be omitted entirely. $ represents the last line. % represents the whole buffer, it is a shortcut for 1,$. The two commands below execute :command on every file from the current line to the last line: :.,$command :,$command The command below e...