Meteoroid is a command line utility for Meteor and extension for Meteorite. It is designed to quickly scaffold out meteor projects and provide a command line interface for quickly creating commonly used components like controllers and templates.

Meteoroid is still in development. I don't have a whole lot of experience with Meteor, so the base usage may change. New features will be added as I get to know Meteor on a deeper level.

###Installation npm install -g meteoroid

Note that if you do not have ownership over your global node_modules directory, you will get errors when trying to install: DO NOT USE sudo npm install -g meteoroid Using sudo for package management is not the greatest idea. Run this once instead: sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local

###Usage mrtd [projectname] [config] [-i [packages]] [-o [options]]

projectname This is just the name of your project. The generated project will be scaffolded using the default Meteoroid config.

config You can optionally specify a different config. Right now the config must be part of the project and exported from assets/configs/index.js. There will be a way to easily publish configs in the future, but for now, just enter them manually.

The format is as follows:

	{
		name: "project_name",
		dirs: [{
			name: "directory_name",
			childDirs: [{
				name: "child_directory_name",
				childDirs: []
			}]
		},{
			name: "another_directory_name",
			childDirs: []
		}],
		packages: [
			"packge1",
			"packge2",
			"packge3"
		]
	}

-i [packages] : Install Atmosphere Packages This is a space-separated list of atmosphere packages to be installed initially.

-o [options] : Meteoroid Scaffolding Options This is a space-separated list of options, which include:

• no-pkg:
  • This will not install any of the default Meteoroid packages. It will only install the same packages as mrt create or meteor create.

More options will be available as this project progresses.

Component Generators

mrtd controller [controllername] Creates a javscript controller file for a handlebars template of the same name using a default controller template file. The ability to create, submit, and specify other controller template files will be added later.

mrtd template [templatename] Creates a handlebars template using a default handlebars template file. The ability to create, submit, and specify other template files will be added later.

###Notes When creating projects, anything after an -i flag will be interpreted as a package and anything after an -o flag will be interpreted as an option and ordering of packages and options does not matter. Ex: mrtd new_project -i package1 -o option1 -i package2 -i package3 -o option2 option3 is the same as: mrtd new_project -i package1 package2 package3 -o option1 option2 option3

All options and packages specified will be ignored when specifying a config.

Package names are those used by Atmosphere. Use empty brackets [] for the packages member of the config to not install any additional packages on project creation.

When creating scaffolding configs, directory structure can be nested as deep as you want. Use empty brackets [] for the childDirs member of bottom level directories.