1. Meteor Project Structure
How to prevent spaghetti code and chaos
Peter Ilfrich – Software IBM Research Australia

2. This presentation may contain a personal opinion
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This presentation may contain a personal opinion

3. Boilerplate / Template
git clone
Folder Structure Fixtures
Useful Packages Data Migration
Global Template Helpers
CSS Helpers
Example Code
Router
Collections + Schema
Views

4. Core Folder Structure
client
compatibility
server
public
private
tests

5. Shared Folder client compatibility server shared model routes public
private
tests

6. Server Folder client compatibility server init methods publications
shared
model
routes
public
private
tests

7. Client Folder client compatibility init views server init methods
publications
shared
model
routes
public
private
tests

8. Init / Compatibility client compatibility init views
Common functionality
Function declaration
3rd party libraries (excl. NPM, Atmosphere)
Compatibility
Init
Client initialization
Environment
Global Subscriptions

9. Views client compatibility init views common.less variables.less
globalhelpers.js
globalevents.js
layout.html
Files
Folders
login/login.html
login/login.less
login/login.js
header/header.html
header/header.less
header/header.js
dashboard/dashboard.html
dashboard/dashboard.less
dashboard/dashboard.js

10. Server Folder server init methods publications Init dbinit.js
dbmigrate.js
1 file per business object (user, category, entry, post, …)
Too many business objects? Group them into sub-folders
Methods
Publications
1 file per collection
Each file contains all publications for a collection

11. Shared Folder shared model routes Model 1 file per collection
Attach schema to collection
Specify access privileges and hooks
Routes
Small Applications
1 file
/server/routes.js
Larger Applications
Group routes into separate files
/server/routes/mainroutes.js
/server/routes/adminroutes.js
/server/routes/apiroutes.js

12. Packages Core Authentication / Security Database Optional Utility less
jquery
mizzao:bootstrap-3
iron:router
Database
aldeed:collections2
matb33:collection-hooks
tmeasday:publish-counts
meteorhacks:aggregate
Utility
reactive-var
http
momentjs:moment
Authentication / Security
accounts-password
browser-policy
Optional
tsega:bootstrap3-datetimepicker
mrt:bootstrap3-typeahead
mrt:filesaver
johdirr:meteor-git-rev
juliancwirko:s-alert
fortawesome:fontawesome
peernohell:c3
matteodem:gridster
dburles:google-maps