generator-mightymeteorites

An(other) opinionated Meteor.js scaffolding tool for Yeoman.

Setup

Before you'll get any use out of this, you'll need to install Meteor and Yeoman

Here are the combined instructions at the time of this writing:

# Meteor
curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh

# Yeoman
npm install -g yo

# This generator
npm install -g generator-mightymeteorites

Scaffolding

The following command will scaffold a new meteor app for you. You will be prompted for the name of your starting collection. For instance, if you were creating a blog you might choose posts as the name of your starting collection.

You will also be asked if you would like to include the package iron:router and you can choose from either twbs:bootstrap or materialize:materialize for your UI.

To scaffold create a directory and then inside the directory call yo mightmeteorites.

mkdir my-app && cd my-app
yo mightymeteorites

As part of the scaffolding the meteor project will be updated to the latest version and all packages will be updated to the latest compatible version.

After your app is scaffolded, you can start your app with:

meteor

Structure

The generated app will have the following structure by default (assuming iron:router and materialize:materialize and a starting collection "puppies")

/
    README.md
    .meteor/
        gitignore
        release
    server/
        startup.js
        publications/
            puppies.js
    public/
        robots.txt
    collections/
        puppies.js
    client/
        subscriptions/
            puppies.js
        views/
            puppies/
                template.html
                events.js
                helpers.js
                rendered.js
                routers.js
            base/
                footer.html
                header.html
                sidebar.html
                rendered.js
                style.css
            template/
                layout.html
                loading.html
                not_found.html
                router.js

Sub-Generators

There are two Yeoman sub-generators to simplify common development tasks:

view

The view sub-generator creates the following files. You can also use the option --ironRouter to include a client\views\my_view\routers.js file.

yo mightymeteorites:view my_view

/
    client/
        views/
            my_view/
                template.html
                events.js
                helpers.js
                rendered.js

yo mightymeteorites:view my_view --ironRouter

/
    client/
        views/
            my_view/
                template.html
                events.js
                helpers.js
                rendered.js
                routers.js

collection

The collection sub-generator creates the following files. You can also use the option --ironRouter to include a client\views\my_view\routers.js file.

yo mightymeteorites:collection cats

/
    server/
        publications/
            cats.js
    collections/
        cats.js
    client/
        subscriptions/
            cats.js
        views/
            cats/
                template.html
                events.js
                helpers.js
                rendered.js
                routers.js

yo mightymeteorites:collection cats --ironRouter

/
    server/
        publications/
            cats.js
    collections/
        cats.js
    client/
        subscriptions/
            cats.js
        views/
            cats/
                template.html
                events.js
                helpers.js
                rendered.js
                routers.js
                routers.js

License

MIT