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Victor Ferreira
Victor Ferreira

Reputation: 6459

How to organize folders and files on Meteor project?

I'm trying to understand Meteor as I create a project and I find some things a little difficult to understand so far.

1- When they say I can create a server and a client folder, where exactly I am meant to do so? Sibling of .meteor ? And will everything be at client's or server's scope when the app starts or do I have to do something else? If I create a foo.js and a foo function inside it in client folder, can I just call foo() in Meteor.isClient and it will work?

2- I need to create an upload folder so people can upload their stuff (images). So where am I supposed to do this? Plus, how can I get the absolute path to my project and find this upload folder inside?

During my attempts I tried the following:

fs = Meteor.npmRequire('fs');
__ROOT_APP_PATH__ = fs.realpathSync('.');

But __ROOT_APP_PATH__ is .meteor\local\build\programs\server. Quite hidden right?!

3- I saw some people uploading and saving files on MongoDB directly. This is something we usually don't do with relational databases. We move the file to a known folder on a CDN or on our own disk and save the hash or name of that file so we can easily find it. Isn't it encouraged with Meteor + MongoDB? Why would I save the file itself on Mongo instead of moving it to a folder?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 589

Answers (2)

iamhimadri
iamhimadri

Reputation: 552

FOLDER STRUCTURE:

both/ (OR lib/)          -- common code for server and client
  |- collections/        -- declare collections (e.g Employer = new Meteor.Collection("employer");)
  |- router     /        -- router code(e.g Router.route(..))

client/                  -- client side code
  |- global/             -- all global variable for client
  |- helpers/            -- global helper for client (for all templates)
  |- plugins/            -- all the plugins code(if you use any)
  |- stylesheets/        -- css / less files
  |- templates/          -- all templates
        |- home.html     -- home template(html)
        |- home.js       -- home template(js)

public/                  -- images/icons/fonts (meteor looking at this file)

server/                  -- server code
  |- methods/            -- server methods/API (e.g Meteor.methods({...}))
  |- publish/            -- publish code from server

this is the basic folder structure for meteor project which i follow. For further reference or Documentation. For any question feel free ask in comments..

Upvotes: 3

atinder
atinder

Reputation: 2090

not any specific way to do but meteor recommend it doing this way http://docs.meteor.com/#/basic/filestructure

Upvotes: 3

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