UPDATE:

To get the client part of your Meteor app use my meteor-build-client NPM package.

Meteor Frontend

This is a demo package to automatically decouple the Meteor frontend part from its backend, for solo distribution.

There is also a blog post about this repo: http://frozeman.de/blog/2013/08/using-meteor-as-frontend-library/

Installation

You need node, npm and grunt-cli installed.

From the root folder of this demo package, run the following command to install the npm packages necessary to run the grunt tasks:

$ npm install

Usage

To run the meteor server for development go into the app/ folder and run $ meteor.

Just edit your meteor files inside the app/client/ folder and run $ grunt to generate the distribution package. This will automatically start a server at http://localhost:9000 to test you distribution package.

Deployment

You need to change the ROOT_URL variable in the Gruntfile.js and set it to the URL of your server, where you want it to deploy. For deployment just copy the content of the dist/ folder onto your webserver.

When you use a router you need to configure your webserver in a way that all urls get mapped to the index.html file and let the router do its work (e.g. https://github.com/tmeasday/meteor-router).

To further slim down your meteor build, remove the standard-app-packages.

Then add either

$ meteor add client-app-packages

when using meteor 0.6.3, or when using the new render engine:

$ meteor add client-app-packages-spacebars

you then also need to update your meteor app to the new render engine, so that the grunt script will use it.

$ meteor update --release template-engine-preview-5

Enjoy!

Contributors

• Fabian Vogelsteller
• Mathieu Bouchard

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Fabian Vogelsteller

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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