Modules and Applications

Requiring Meteor Core Packages

Instead of globally accessing Meteor packages in your codebase you can add them to your module / application dependencies and have them injected automatically after initialisation.

Example: Packages on Server and Client

Space.Application.create({

  Dependencies: {
    meteor: 'Meteor',
    tracker: 'Tracker',
    ejson: 'EJSON',
    ddp: 'DDP',
    accounts: 'Accounts',
    random: 'Random',
    underscore: 'underscore',
    reactiveVar: 'ReactiveVar',
    mongo: 'Mongo'
  },

  configure: function() {
    expect(this.meteor).to.equal(Meteor);
    expect(this.tracker).to.equal(Tracker);
    expect(this.ejson).to.equal(EJSON);
    expect(this.ddp).to.equal(DDP);
    expect(this.accounts).to.equal(Package['accounts-base'].Accounts);
    expect(this.random).to.equal(Random);
    expect(this.underscore).to.equal(_);
    expect(this.reactiveVar).to.be.instanceof(Package['reactive-var'].ReactiveVar);
    expect(this.mongo).to.equal(Mongo);
  }
});

Example: Packages on Client only

Space.Application.create({

  Dependencies: {
    templates: 'Template',
    session: 'Session',
    blaze: 'Blaze',
  },

  configure: function() {
    expect(this.templates).to.equal(Template);
    expect(this.session).to.equal(Session);
    expect(this.blaze).to.equal(Blaze);
  }
});

Example for packages on server only

Space.Application.create({

  Dependencies: {
    email: 'Email',
    process: 'process',
    Future: 'Future',
  },

  configure: function() {
    expect(this.email).to.equal(Package['email'].Email);
    expect(this.process).to.equal(process);
    expect(this.Future).to.equal(Npm.require('fibers/future'));
  }
});