Development usually begins with an editor or an Integrated Development Environment. The following IDEs are known to support Meteor to some extent:
Atom - Javascript IDE that can fully leverage Meteor's isomorphic javascript framework. If you want to be able to hack on your editor itself, this i...
Once you get past your 'Hello World' app, you'll need to start paying attention to your collection and document schemas, and will need some tools for managing your database.
Robomongo - A longtime community favorite for managing Mongo. Highly recommended.
JSON Generator - Invaluable utility for...
Developing Meteor apps usually means developing multi-client reactivity, which requires collaboration tools. The following tools have proven to be popular within the Meteor community.
Google Hangouts - Video conferencing and chat.
Zenhub.io - Kanban boards for GitHub.
InVision - Collaborative ...
If you want to integrate Meteor with an external API, it's likely that it's going to exposed as a REST interface. We tend to use the following Chrome apps for testing REST APIs.
Postman
DHC Rest Client
Online tools:
Hurl.it
RequestBin
Most debugging happens in the terminal or in the Chrome or Safari develop tools, which are plenty sophisticated enough for 99% of your needs. However, if you want to debug on Firefox or need extra server debugging functionality, there are a few extra utilities you can use.
Firefox - Firebug
Nod...
The idea is that a distro maintainer wants to run something like the following command:
meteor publish-release clinical.meteor.rc6.json
Which will then allow users of the distro to run this:
meteor run --release clinical:[email protected]
A release manifest is similar to an NPM package.json file, in that it's primary concern is specify a list of Atmosphere packages, and providing a bit of metadata about that list of packages. The basic format looks like this:
{
"track":"distroname:METEOR",
"version&qu...
If you need to extend the meteor tool or the command line, you'll need to create and publish your own meteor-tool package. Ronen's documentation is the best out there for this process:
http://practicalmeteor.com/using-meteor-publish-release-to-extend-the-meteor-command-line-tool/1
It's easy to get...
StarryNight contains a small utility that parses an application's .meteor/versions file, and converts it into a Release Manifest.
npm install -g starrynight
cd myapp
starrynight generate-release-json
If you don't wish to use StarryNight, simply copy the contents of your .meteor/versions file i...
When building a custom release track, it's common to keep packages in the /packages directory as git submodules. The following command allows you to fetch all of the latest commits for the submodules in your /packages directory at the same time.
git submodule foreach git pull origin master
Logcat is a command-line tool that dumps a log of system messages, including stack traces when the device throws an error and messages that you have written from your app with the Log class.
The Logcat output can be displayed within Android Studio's Android Monitor or with adb command line.
In And...
The following example creates a Bootstrap Drop-Down menu, using only Blaze and no JQuery.
Document Object Model
<nav class="nav navbar-nav">
<li class="dropdown">
<a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="drop...
A very common task is to create responsive navbars and to create action/footer bars that have different controls based on what page a user is on, or what role a user belongs to. Lets go over how to make these controls.
Router
Router.configure({
layoutTemplate: 'appLayout',
});
Router.route('c...
This follwing is a pure-Blaze approach to toggling UI elements into and outof existence. Think of this as a replacement for modal dialogs. In fact, there are a number of ways to implement modal dialogs using this method (simply add background masks and animations).
Document Object Model
<templa...
The Database Layer
First, we want to set up the Data Distribution Protocol, to make sure that we can persist data to the database, and get it to the client. Three files need to be created... one on the server, one on the client, and one shared between both.
// client/subscriptions.js
Meteor.subsc...
Alerts and errors are nearly the simplest of all Meteor component patterns. They're so simple, in fact, that they barely register as a pattern in of themselves. Instead of adding FlashAlert modules or patterns, all you really need to do is style a Handlebar template appropriate, add a helper, and wi...
Document Object Model
Start by creating your tabs and panes in your Object Model...
<template name="samplePage">
<div id="samplePage" class="page">
<ul class="nav nav-tabs">
<li id="firstPanelTab"><a href=&...
Dynamic Proxies do not really have much to do with Reflection but they are part of the API. It's basically a way to create a dynamic implementation of an interface. This could be helpful when creating mockup services. A Dynamic Proxy is an instance of an interface that is created with a so-called in...
