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Chip Castle
Chip Castle

Reputation: 2192

How do you run manual tasks within a Meteor project?

For example, in a Ruby project you can use rake to create and run tasks for performing manual operations. What is the equivalent, if any, when using Meteor?

Let's say I have a function inside a server/tasks.js file:

Meteor.startup(function() {

  function importData() {
    // My code goes here
  }
});

How do I run it from the command line using Meteor or some other task manager?

meteor importData

Upvotes: 3

Views: 312

Answers (1)

Sander van den Akker
Sander van den Akker

Reputation: 1555

I solved a similar case by creating a Meteor method on the serverside that is triggered every time a client loads a page that needs the data. The method only executes the importData function if it hasn't been executed in the last hour.

This is a good pattern for things dat need to sync with remote data. I use it for importing stuff from Tumblr. The downside of this approach is that the method is not run when nobody visits the page. This is easily solved by adding a timer using Meteor.setInterval on the serverside.

Alternatively, if you really want to execute Meteor code from the command prompt, you could take a look at the following package: https://github.com/practicalmeteor/meteor-mcli

Upvotes: 1

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