Liftoff

Liftoff is an opinionated boilerplate you can use to Meteor project off the ground super fast. Check out the demo.

What's inside

• semantic:ui - User Interface is the language of the web
• useraccounts:semantic-ui - Beautiful and simple user account templates
• kadira:flow-router - Routing at its finest
• kadira:blaze-layout - Blaze rendering for Flow Router
• zimme:active-route - Template helper to determine active routes
• arillo:flow-router-helpers - Flow Router helpers
• aldeed:autoform - Magic forms
• aldeed:simple-schema - Schemas for your collections
• aldeed:collection2 - Automatically validate your collections
• okgrow:router-autoscroll - Fixes scrolling position while routing

Try it

Download the project and unzip.

https://github.com/jfols/liftoff/archive/master.zip

Rename the directory to your project name.

In your terminal, navigate to the project directory.

cd YOURPROJECTNAME

If you don't have Meteor install, install it

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

Fire up the engines

meteor

Deploy your app

There are several options to deploy your app.

Meteor Deploy

Free meteor deploy hosted by Meteor.

meteor deploy yourapp.meteor.com

Or to your own domain using Meteor deploy by setting the CNAME of your domain to origin.meteor.com.

meteor deploy yourdomain.com

Meteor Up (recommended)

We find the use of Digital Ocean with Meteor Up to be the simplest and most cost effective hosting solution. For a more robust database experience give Compose a try.

Custom Deploy

Check out this hackpad https://hackpad.com/Production-Meteor-Deploy-Ubuntu-14.04-5TRJ2Erlngg