Meteor Boilerplate

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An opinionated boilerplate for new Meteor projects.

Overview

The content provides a list of various packages available for the Meteor framework. These packages offer additional functionality and features that can be implemented in Meteor applications. The packages mentioned fall into different categories, including Atmosphere packages, NPM packages, and user account packages.

Features

  • Dataaldeed:collection2-core: Adds support for the collection2 library, allowing the attachment of schemas to MongoDB.
  • check: A lightweight package for argument checking and general pattern matching.
  • dburles:collection-helpers: Sets up a transformation on collections using Meteor's Mongo.Collection transform option, enabling the use of simple models with a template helper-like interface.
  • mdg:validated-method: A wrapper package for meteor.methods that enables the definition of methods in a more structured and robust way.
  • deed:template-extension: Adds template features, including global hooks, inheritance, and additional methods not available in the default Meteor templating package.
  • meteortoys:allthings: In-app development tools available in the development environment only.
  • fourseven:scss: Adds support for the compilation of .scss files.
  • reactive-dict: A general-purpose reactive datatype for use with the tracker, providing reactive get, set, and equals functions similar to the Session object in Meteor.

Summary

The content provides an overview of various packages available for the Meteor framework. These packages enhance the functionality of Meteor applications by adding features such as schema support, argument checking, template extensions, and in-app development tools. The packages can be easily installed using the meteor add command.