Welcome to Meteor Recipe Book

This application was created as an exercise to further explore Meteor, Blaze, and MongoDB. You can view a similar repo where I explored using Meteor with React to build a ToDo app HERE

Table of Contents

• Set Up
• Live App
• Helpful Terminal Commands
• Helpful Links
• Tech Stack

Set Up

Clone repo

https://github.com/nathangthomas/meteor-recipe-book

Run Meteor Recipe Book Locally

• Type meteor in your terminal to spin up your server.
• Visit http://localhost:3000/ in your browser to interact with the app.
• Run the test suite by first shutting down your current server or specifying a new port with --port XYZ. You can then run TEST_WATCH=1 meteor test --driver-package meteortesting:mocha to run tests.

Live App

(This functionality is not currently set up.) You can also interact with a live version of Meteor Recipe Book HERE.

Helpful Terminal Commands:

• meteor create new-app creates a new Meteor app.
• meteor create --react new-react-app creates a new Meteor app using React
• meteor runs your local server on localhost:3000
• meteor --settings settings.json run local server using settings.json file
• meteor remove whatever-you-want-to-remvoe
• meteor add whatever-you-want-to-add
• meteor update Update all packages
• meteor add react-meteor-data Allows us to create a "data container" to feed Meteor's reactive data into React's component hierarchy
• meteor mongo Opens a console into your app's local development database
  • show dbs Displays all databases
  • show collections Collections of current db
• meteor add accounts-ui accounts-password Adds packages to enable the accounts system and UI
• TEST_WATCH=1 meteor test --driver-package meteortesting:mocha Run app in test mode
• --port XYZ Specify alternate port
• meteor run --production Runs the production version of your application locally

Running On an iOS Simulator

• meteor install-sdk ios Run application inside the IOS simulator
• meteor add-platform ios Install Xcode from the App Store
• sudo xcodebuild -license accept short cut for ^^
• meteor run ios
• sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer Enable Xcode tools in the terminal environment
• meteor run ios-device Opens project in Xcode
• meteor run ios-device --mobile-server=http://1.1.1.1:3000
• meteor add-platform ios Adds iOS platform to project

Helpful Links:

• Meteor Guide
• Facebook's React Tutorial
• React Docs
• JSX
• React Events
• Meteor's Optimistic UI - Blog Post
• Deploy a Meteor Application to Heroku

Tech Stack:

This app was built with the following:

• Meteor
• Blaze
• JavaScript
• MongoDB