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user3819370
user3819370

Reputation: 513

Meteor App hangs when adding Ecmascript

I recently updated my Meteor App to 1.3 and also want to migrate to the "new style" of coding, meaning ES2015, React, later on Apollo/GraphQL.

First I only want to use the import syntax. But when I meteor add Ecmascript it will then hang on meteor: Building for web.browser / takes forever.

Any ideas why?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 345

Answers (1)

Hrishikesh Kumar
Hrishikesh Kumar

Reputation: 376

I had the same issue. In my case this is how I got it fixed. May be it is the same for you.

I had multiple third party libraries in client/lib folder.

To use ES6 syntax, I added 'ecmascript' to my .meteor/packages file and after that issuing the meteor command would just hang. During trial and error, I figured out that

deleting the client/lib directory made meteor to start

. For the libraries my application depends on, I went to https://atmospherejs.com, searched for the meteor specific package name for the dependency and added these to .meteor/packages file.

e.g: Instead of copying the datatables.js and datatables.css inside client/lib folder, add 'menway:jquery-datatables' to .meteor/packages or issue the command meteor add menway:jquery-datatables

Upvotes: 1

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