Spiderable for Meteor (NO PhantomJS)

Using Meteorhacks:SSR and Iron:Router.

A temporary solution for spiderability to Meteor without PhantomJS and similar until Meteor and Iron:Router supports server-side rendering.

Notice! Should not work with coffee script. And probably not on Windows (untested).

Installation

meteor add studiointeract:spiderable

Usage

This package renders templates on the server.

First create a symlink for the client folder to private.

meteor create my-app
cd my-app
ln -s client/ private/

Add ?_escaped_fragment_= to the query of your routes and it will now render with SSR!

For example visit the frontpage of your app: http://localhost:3000/?_escaped_fragment_=

The trick to make this work

We symlink the client folder to private, which makes it available on the server.

How it works

1. By loading all client templates and scripts as assets via private.
2. Compiling templates data into templates.
3. Parsing Iron:Router and extracting where all templates and layouts should go.

Notice! Use with caution – test all routes so they don't break your app!

Notice! It is now important to make sure things can run on the server too.