meteor-bones

Barebones scaffolding for a Meteor 1.0 app. Includes preferred folder structure, customizable twitter bootstrap 3, font-awesome and basic packages like iron-router, coffeescript and less.

Dependencies

Node Version Manager - Simple bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.17.2/install.sh | bash
source ~/.profile

NodeJS - Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

nvm install stable
n=$(which node);n=${n%/bin/node}; chmod -R 755 $n/bin/*; sudo cp -r $n/{bin,lib,share} /usr/local

Meteor - Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

curl https://install.meteor.com | sh

Various Meteor packages

meteor list

Installation

git clone https://github.com/productiveme/meteor-bones.git project-name
cd project-name
meteor

Documentation

Handy documentation to get familiarised with:

• CoffeeScript Syntax
• Meteor Docs
• Bootstrap3 CSS
• Mongo Manual
• Iron Router
• Underscore
• MomentJS
• Font Awesome Icons

Scaffolding

Folder structure

├── client
│   ├── compatibility   // 3rd party client side libraries that require global scope to work
│   ├── css             // importing and combining less files
│   │   ├── components  // component less import files
│   │   └── sites       // theme less import files
│   ├── lib             // 3rd party client side libraries that can be encapsulated
│   │   ├── helpers     // client side generic helpers
│   │   └── meteor      // client router and client startup code
│   └── views           // templates and controlling code
├── lib                 // isomorphic 3rd party libraries (client and server)
│   ├── helpers         // isomorphic generic helpers (client and server)
│   └── models          // isomorphic models to centralize database code (client and server)
├── public              // public assets
│   ├── fonts
│   └── img
└── server
        ├── api         // if an api is required
        ├── config      // server side configuration
        ├── lib         // server side 3rd party libraries
        │   └── helpers // server side generic helpers
        ├── models      // model rules
        └── publish     // publish methods