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Discussion/plan here: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/4851 `meteor-platform will no longer be a part of future Meteor releases. Apps `upgraded to Meteor 1.2 will be automatically updated to use the packages listed `above instead of meteor-platform. (Along with a set of packages like EJSON and `Random that used to be in meteor platform but probably shouldn’t have been) After this project, here is the set of packages that will be included by default in a newly created Meteor app: 1. `meteor-base` is the set of packages that basically every single Meteor app will have. If you don’t have these packages, you are probably doing something that isn’t really supported, like building a command line tool or switching out the whole web server stack. It comes with the following packages: 1. `meteor` - this includes stuff like `Meteor.isClient`, a default handler for `css` files, etc. 2. `webapp` - this is responsible for handling actual HTTP connections, Websockets, and serving files 3. `underscore` - almost all of Meteor is built on top of underscore, so it makes sense to let people assume that most or all Meteor apps right now will have this included 4. `autoupdate` - refreshing the client is a core part of the Meteor development experience, and it’s integrated into several layers of the stack 5. `ddp` - lots of core parts of Meteor assume that DDP can be used to communicate between client and server 2. `standard-minifiers` minifies your JS and CSS code in production 3. `ecmascript` allows you to write your app using new ES2015 JavaScript features 4. `es5-shim` polyfills some newer APIs in old and non-compliant browsers, in particular IE8 5. `mobile-experience` is a set of cordova-specific packages that set some good defaults when building for mobile. These packages only activate when you are building a native Android or iOS app. 1. `fastclick` - avoid the 300ms touch delay 2. `mobile-status-bar` - avoid the status bar information covering up your app content 3. `launch-screen` - cover the app with a launch image so that people don’t have to see things loading 6. `mongo` is the package that enables Meteor to connect to MongoDB on the server and watch queries in real-time. It also includes Minimongo for the client so that you can publish Mongo documents over DDP. This package will be removable in case you want to use one of the community-supported drivers for alternate databases, and for the desirable future where Meteor supports other databases officially. 7. `blaze-html-templates` compiles your `html` files with Spacebars and includes the Blaze runtime on the client so that the templates can run. If you remove this, you might want to include a different view layer like `react`, or `angular`, and use a package for rendering the starter HTML like `static-html` (also coming out in Meteor 1.2) 8. `tracker` the package that powers a lot of Meteor’s reactive APIs on the client. Including it in the app allows you to use `Tracker.autorun` directly. 9. `session` a simple global reactive dictionary for the client. 10. `jquery` a convenient utility library for the client. 11. `insecure` a prototyping package that lets you make any database modifications from the client. 12. `autopublish` a prototyping package that lets you access the whole database (except sensitive user data) from the client.
Meteor
Meteor is an ultra-simple environment for building modern web applications.
With Meteor you write apps:
- in pure JavaScript
- that send data over the wire, rather than HTML
- using your choice of popular open-source libraries
Documentation is available at http://docs.meteor.com/
Quick Start
Install Meteor:
curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh
Create a project:
meteor create try-meteor
Run it:
cd try-meteor
meteor
Deploy it to the world, for free:
meteor deploy try-meteor.meteor.com
Slow Start (for developers)
If you want to run on the bleeding edge, or help develop Meteor, you can run Meteor directly from a git checkout.
git clone git://github.com/meteor/meteor.git
cd meteor
If you're the sort of person who likes to build everything from scratch, you can build all the Meteor dependencies (node.js, npm, mongodb, etc) with the provided script. This requires git, a C and C++ compiler, autotools, and scons. If you do not run this script, Meteor will automatically download pre-compiled binaries when you first run it.
# OPTIONAL
./scripts/generate-dev-bundle.sh
Now you can run meteor directly from the checkout (if you did not build the dependency bundle above, this will take a few moments to download a pre-build version).
./meteor --help
From your checkout, you can read the docs locally. The /docs directory is a
meteor application, so simply change into the /docs directory and launch
the app:
cd docs/
../meteor
You'll then be able to read the docs locally in your browser at
http://localhost:3000/.
Note that if you run Meteor from a git checkout, you cannot pin apps to specific
Meteor releases or run using different Meteor releases using --release.
Uninstalling Meteor
Aside from a short launcher shell script, Meteor installs itself inside your home directory. To uninstall Meteor, run:
rm -rf ~/.meteor/
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/meteor
Developer Resources
Building an application with Meteor?
- Announcement list: sign up at http://www.meteor.com/
- Ask a question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/meteor
- Discussion forums: https://forums.meteor.com/
Interested in contributing to Meteor?
- Issue tracker: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues
- Contribution guidelines: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/tree/devel/Contributing.md
We are hiring! Visit https://www.meteor.com/jobs to learn more about working full-time on the Meteor project.