meteor-client-packages-meteor

YOU CAN CONTINUE TO USE THIS PACKAGE BUT YOU HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE THAT REFERENCE DIRECTLY ANY LOCAL METEOR SERVER : meteor-webpack-client.

Use Meteor's client packages side in a non Meteor project.

The packages given are :

• Accounts password
• Accounts UI
• Blaze
• DDP
• Minimongo
• Tracker

and all the individual depedencies.

Installation

NPM

npm install --save [email protected] for Meteor 1.3.5

npm install --save [email protected] for Meteor 1.3.5.1

npm install --save [email protected] for Meteor 1.4

npm install --save [email protected] for Meteor 1.4.0.1

npm install --save [email protected] for Meteor 1.4.1

npm install --save [email protected] for Meteor 1.4.1.1

npm install --save [email protected] for Meteor 1.4.1.2

npm install --save [email protected] for Meteor 1.4.1.3

npm install --save [email protected] for Meteor 1.4.2

npm install --save [email protected] for Meteor 1.4.2.1

Usage

1. Meteor setup :

To define __meteor_runtime_config__ global variables you can make a meteor-runtime-config.js file in your root. The following is the default if empty :

export const __meteor_runtime_config__ = {
  meteorEnv: {},
  DDP_DEFAULT_CONNECTION_URL: 'http://localhost:3000',
  PUBLIC_SETTINGS: {
    __global_scope__: false
  }
};

• Set DDP connection url with DDP_DEFAULT_CONNECTION_URL
• Make Meteor objects global with __global_scope__: true.

2. Load the meteor-client-packages-meteor packages :

To use with webpack you have to add the following code at the end of your webpack.config.js file :

config = generateConfig(
  config,
  require('meteor-client-packages/easy-webpack')()
);

[name] have to be in the filename of css files of shunks :

require('@easy-webpack/config-css')
  ({ filename: '[name].styles.css', allChunks: true, sourceMap: false }),

It makes it possible to import the packages as in Meteor 1.3+ :

import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor';
import { DDP } from 'meteor/ddp';

meteor-client-packages/easy-webpack has tow optional parameters :

• absoluteNodeModulesPath: (default to false) node_modules must have absolute path (usefull with symlink). It has not been tested without Aurelia.
• rootDir: (default to current root dir) the base dir for node_modules if absoluteNodeModulesPath is true

The packages bundled by webpack are only those imported by your code with their dependencies.

3. Versions

The version of this package takes the same version as the Meteor version for witch the Meteor packages have been compiled.

meteor-client-packages-meteor version : 1.3.5-0.x.x  <==  Meteor version : 1.3.5
meteor-client-packages-meteor version : 1.3.5-1.x.x  <==  Meteor version : 1.3.5.1
meteor-client-packages-meteor version : 1.4.0-0.x.x  <==  Meteor version : 1.4
meteor-client-packages-meteor version : 1.4.0-1.x.x  <==  Meteor version : 1.4.0.1
meteor-client-packages-meteor version : 1.4.1-0.x.x  <==  Meteor version : 1.4.1
meteor-client-packages-meteor version : 1.4.1-1.x.x  <==  Meteor version : 1.4.1.1
meteor-client-packages-meteor version : 1.4.1-2.x.x  <==  Meteor version : 1.4.1.2
meteor-client-packages-meteor version : 1.4.1-2.x.x  <==  Meteor version : 1.4.1.3
meteor-client-packages-meteor version : 1.4.2-0.x.x  <==  Meteor version : 1.4.2
meteor-client-packages-meteor version : 1.4.2-1.x.x  <==  Meteor version : 1.4.2.1

4. Your own NPM package for other METEOR packages

You have to use this NPM Package as a model. To change the packages to include you have to :

1. Change the file __src__\packages witch has to include the Meteor packages name you need
2. Change the file __src__\meteor-version to compile to the good version of Meteor when this makes sense
3. Change the file __src__\meteor-packages-meteorVersion to define dependencies and package-version
4. In dependencies of the package.json file, replace meteor-client-packages by meteor-client-packages-meteor
5. Do npm run build or npm start
6. Don't forget git add *, git commit -m "new version", git push and npm publish

Don't include a Meteor package already in this NPM package in the file __src__\meteor-packages-meteorVersion.json.

Your have to create your NPM package with a name like meteor-client-packages-....

All the meteor-client-packages-... NPM packages are loaded by webpack to define the aliases of the Meteor packages.

What I've done

The code is in the native compiled version of Meteor for a given version.

I wanted to be able to use meteor's modules with webpack using import {...} from 'meteor/...'.