This is the feature that excites me most about Meteor 1.6, hands down.
Benefits include:
* Works with `meteor test[-packages] --debug-port 9229` (for tests), as
well as just `meteor debug` (for apps).
* The application process waits patiently for the debugger to attach, so
you don't have to race to open the debugger.
* The application process pauses at a location just after all server code
has been evaluated, but before any code starts executing, giving you a
chance to set reliable breakpoints anywhere in server code. This is much
better than using the `node --inspect-brk` flag, since that stops too
soon to set any useful breakpoints.
* The application server runs at full speed, so you don't have to wait
forever to hit that all-important breakpoint, and you don't lose nearly
as much time if you accidentally continue past the line of code where
the trouble is occurring.
* Even if your application is stuck in an infinite loop, you can still
attach the debugger, pause execution, and debug the loop.
* No more `node-inspector`! Instead, you can now debug your server code in
native Chrome DevTools, or several other high-quality inspector clients,
such as VS Code or WebStorm (seriously, check out the documentation:
https://nodejs.org/en/docs/inspector/#inspector-tools-clients). The list
of debuggable processes can be found at the URL chrome://inspect.
* Realistic performance and memory profiling is now possible via the
familiar DevTools interface.
* I highly recommend this Chrome extension that automatically (re)connects
to any open inspector sockets, so you don't have to keep manually
(re)attaching the debugger: http://june07.com/nim
* The implementation of `meteor debug` no longer has to proxy multiple
private/public debugger ports. Look at all that deleted code!
This new inspector is so much better than the old `node-inspector` that
I've been using the release-1.6 branch to debug problems in Meteor 1.5,
despite the risks of using Node 8, because those risks are so far
outweighed by the quality of the new debugging experience.
That said, the experience isn't perfect (yet). I welcome your feedback on
the Meteor 1.6 PR: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/8728
* Update help text to clarify the use of external npm commands
First attempt to improve the help text regarding the external npm commands that can be run directly with 'meteor'.
#8277
Further enhancements could include listing also the "current" available external commands by parsing a ls/dir command or 'meteor npm list -g -depth 0'. If they command is uninstalled between the call of 'meteor help' and 'meteor <external command>' we are not the ones to be blamed but the user instead :)
* Update 'external command' to 'npm command'
* Joining new suggestions and cleaning some redundancy
Included @abernix suggestions (with some variations) to include references to npm and node. Also clarified how to install a npm package and run it afterwards
* Typo
Changed to global context
* Reword description of "other" npm commands
These commands are similar to `node` and `npm`, but we didn't want
them to be confused with `npm command` commands.
* Avoid repetition of `meteor npm install --global`
Package version unpinning (#7084) removed all exact package@=version
constraints derived from the current release.
As we discovered with Meteor 1.4.2.4 (#8306), this meant releases no
longer had any power to enforce package upgrades, which is why the
follow-up Meteor 1.4.2.5 release (#8311) was necessary.
This commit has the same effect as putting package@version in your
.meteor/packages file for every local/core package that your app uses.
Tiny fix for an old issue where the console output would get corrupted when running `meteor admin set-unmigrated` or `meteor admin change-homepage` due to missing newline on `rawInfo` command.
Fixesmeteor/meteor#4054
This fixes a regression caused by 88d43a0f16 which is demonstrated in meteor/meteor#7849.
Essentially, with the current implementation some Cordova build elements are "stale" when the build is copied. For example, if you execute a `meteor run ios` and then `meteor build . --server=http://example.com/` (note: `example.com`) the `config.xml` (`<access origin />`), the boilerplate HTML (`__meteor_runtime_config__`) and other elements of the bundle (`Info.plist` on iOS) will still contain the previously used `http://<local_ip>:3000` address instead of `http://example.com` as they should.
Additionally, it would appear that it's impossible to actually checkout a project and immediately run `meteor build` without running `meteor run (android|ios)` first.
Various work-arounds for this seem to exist, such as running `meteor build` twice, or running `meteor run --server=http://production.com` first.
Ultimately, this is occurring because the bundle is being copied before the Cordova `prepareForPlatform` occurs which I believe was not intended.
There is already a test in place which fails without this fix, but marked as `slow` and therefore not executed on CircleCI. Specifically, `cordova builds with server options` would have caught this. Forcibly running this test locally now passes with this change.
Fixesmeteor/meteor#7849Fixesmeteor/meteor#7291Fixesmeteor/meteor#6756
Although I have said I do not think Meteor should run `npm install`
automatically to update application node_modules, my real concern is that
Meteor should not interfere with your preferred node_modules-related
workflow, be it npm, npm-shinkwrap.json, yarn, yarn.lock, checking your
node_modules into git/mercurial/cvs, or whatever other scheme you have.
Automatically installing node_modules from the default package.json file
when a new app is created will eliminate real confusion, and should not
interfere with any workflows, because there is no opportunity to establish
another workflow before Meteor runs `npm install` the very first time.
Scaffold an official project structure
Add --bare option to meteor create
Notice scaffold options on meteor create
add full skeleton
add spaces
remove shell-server package from skew-full + add description of new packages
Add --bare option to meteor create
Notice scaffold options on meteor create
add full skeleton
add spaces
remove shell-server package from skew-full + add description of new packages
improve PR
resolve conflict
Fix rebase
fix static-assets readme
Fix tipo
Remove insecure and auto publish packages
Remove useraccounts-configuration.js
add tests
fix PR
Tests were broken by the new dependency on the babel-runtime npm
package, but fortunately all those tests run `meteor --prepare-app`
whenever an app is created by a self-test, so this change should fix
most of the breakages.
At this point, the only dependencies installed in this way are
babel-runtime and meteor-node-stubs, but that set of packages will
expand in the future as we move more dependencies to npm.
By removing the `--allow-superuser` and `--unsafe-perm` arguments before springboarding, it prevents older versions of Meteor from objecting to its use. Catching it at the highest level should be sufficient to discourage root usage as intended in meteor/meteor#7821
Intended to fix... meteor/meteor#7959
This is important for `meteor npm`, since we don't parse or pass through
Meteor-specific command-line arguments when running `meteor npm`.
When METEOR_UNSAFE_PERM is set, its value is now propagated to any npm
commands via the NPM_CONFIG_UNSAFE_PERM variable.
Helps with #7959.
Follow-up to #7821.
