I used http://filepicker.io. They’ll upload the file, store it into your S3, and return you a URL where the file is. Then I just plop the url into a DB. Wget the filepicker script into your client folder. wget https://api.filepicker.io/v0/filepicker.js Insert a filepicker input tag <input type=”filepicker” id=”attachment”> In the startup, initialize it: Meteor.startup( function() … Read more
In Meteor 0.5.4 this has become a lot easier: First run the following commands from the terminal: npm install -g node-inspector node-inspector & export NODE_OPTIONS=’–debug-brk’ meteor And then open http://localhost:8080 in your browser to view the node-inspector console. Update Since Meteor 1.0 you can just type meteor debug which is essentially a shortcut for the … Read more
Update: as of meteor 1.0, the command is now meteor list
Ensure Meteor is running on localhost. Open a terminal window and run meteor command. It will start running on localhost:3000 if you have not changed to port. While it is running, open a separate terminal window and run meteor mongo command. This will open up a MongoDB shell and tell you what port it is … Read more
I can’t speak for Meteor, but I can help provide a little background on Sails because I created it. tldr; Sails is not a panacea for all of the web’s problems– but I believe Node.js is. The goal of Sails is to provide a practical framework for developing complete, scalable, startup and enterprise-friendly applications built … Read more
If you have your app with you you could do this in your project directory meteor deploy test.meteor.com –delete meteor deploy test.meteor.com The first deletes the app so its all blank. The second deploys a fresh instance of it back.
Collections, publications and subscriptions are a tricky area of Meteor, that the documentation could discuss in more detail, so as to avoid frequent confusion, which sometimes get amplified by confusing terminology. Here’s Sacha Greif (co-author of DiscoverMeteor) explaining publications and subscriptions in one slide: To properly understand why you need to call find() more than … Read more
Use the environment variable MONGO_URL. Something like: export MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/your_db Replace your_db with meteor or whatever db you want to use.
A loose analogy is, “Meteor is to Node as Rails is to Ruby.” It’s a large, opinionated framework that uses Node on the server. Node itself is just a low-level framework providing functions for sending and receiving HTTP requests and performing other I/O. Meteor is radically ambitious: By default, every page it serves is actually … Read more
When you create a app using meteor command, by default the app includes the following packages: AUTOPUBLISH INSECURE Together, these mimic the effect of each client having full read/write access to the server’s database. These are useful prototyping tools (development purposes only), but typically not appropriate for production applications. When you’re ready for production release, … Read more