The solution is quite simple, and maybe someone will find it useful. In most projects you have a couple of date formats you want to use. So it’s a good approach to define your formats with readable names. For this example I took just ‘short’ and ‘long’, but you will see, it’s very easy to … Read more
There are 2 versions 1. Global tool version of meteor command Find version by: meteor –version # CAUTION this will auto update your meteor release !!!!! 2. Project version of meteor A project stays at the meteor version which it was created with unless manually upgraded. Find this by running: cat .meteor/release
<script> tags in body or templates aren’t executed by Meteor, they are parsed and then handled by Meteor’s templating system. You can’t expect a script tag in either of those to just work as it would with a normal HTML page. The solution is to use Template events (where you could manually append the script … Read more
I did a full write-on on this in Meteorpedia: http://www.meteorpedia.com/read/REST_API The post reviews all 6 options for creating REST interfaces, from highest level (e.g. smart packages that handle everything for you) to lowest level (e.g. writing your own connectHandler). Additionally the post covers when using a REST interface is the right or wrong thing to … Read more
OK I seem to have found enough articles to conclude: It’s perfectly fine to store html fragments and files in MongoDB as standard utf-8 encoded strings with a few caveats, noted in the MongoDB documentation “when should I use GridFS” (more on GridFS here) GridFS is a specification for storing and retrieving files that exceed … Read more
Meteor 1.3, released on March 28, 2016, gives apps full ES6 (ES2015) modules support and out of the box NPM support. Apps and packages can now load NPM modules directly and easily on the client and on the server. If you can use 1.3, then check http://guide.meteor.com/using-packages.html#installing-npm. For example, to use moment.js: meteor npm install … Read more
In an NgModule.imports, you can only list modules. Not components. So the problem is here: imports:[BrowserModule, LoginComponent, SignupComponent, ResourcesComponent ] Remove the components, and take a look at the NgModules FAQ What should I import? Import modules whose public (exported) declarable classes you need to reference in this module’s component templates
You are putting jquery plugin javascript file in app folder directly,so that javascript file will be be loaded for client as well as server. As per Meteor documentation: Client loads javascript from: project/public and project/client Server loads javascript from: project/public and project/server folders. As of v1.0, Meteor is using jQuery internally in the client, so … Read more
I’ve just accidentally discovered this in the console: Template.registerHelper function (name, func) { Blaze._globalHelpers[name] = func; } So, Blaze._globalHelpers is what we are looking for!
From the Meteor.wrapAsync http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_wrapasync you can see that you need to pass it a function and optionally a context, whereas on your two attempts you are passing the RESULT of calling the async version of Stripe.customers.create. Meteor.methods({ stripeCreateUser: function(options) { // get a sync version of our API async func var stripeCustomersCreateSync=Meteor.wrapAsync(Stripe.customers.create,Stripe.customers); // call the … Read more