Meteor Boilerplate

Overview

Meteor Boilerplate is a starting point for Meteor-based applications. It includes useful packages and organization techniques to ensure that your codebase is maintainable and easy to understand. It also includes a gulp-based coding standards sniffer to ensure code quality.

Features

• Iron Router: A router that works on the server and the browser.
• Collection 2: Extends Mongo.Collection to provide support for specifying a schema and validating against it.
• Collection Helpers: Sets up a transformation on your collections allowing for simple models.
• Autoform: Adds UI components and helpers to easily create basic forms with automatic insert and update events.
• Roles: Roles-based authorization package compatible with the built-in accounts package.
• Sass: Brings Sass to your Meteor application using node-sass.
• Core Packages: Adds the following Meteor core packages by default: insecure, jquery, accounts-base, underscore.
• Deployment with Docker: Includes a basic Dockerfile for deploying built versions of your application.

Summary

Meteor Boilerplate is a useful starting point for Meteor-based applications. It includes several key features such as a router, support for schema validation, UI components for forms, role-based authorization, and Sass integration. It also includes a coding standards sniffer and a Docker deployment option. The folder structure helps in organizing the application modules, collections, and other files. Overall, Meteor Boilerplate provides a solid foundation for building Meteor apps efficiently and maintaining code quality.