The power of Meteor and the simplicity and eco-system of AngularJS
Community - Thank you so much for making the ng-conf 2015 talk happen!
- Install Meteor
$ curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh - Create a new meteor app using
$ meteor create myappor navigate to the root of your existing app - Install urigo:angular
$ meteor add urigo:angular
- Change Log, updates and breaking changes
- Getting started tutorial
- angular-meteor University
- Example application (Final version of the tutorial)
- angular-meteor Blog
- Meteor package - urigo:angular
- Roadmap - Trello board
- Meteor Forums
We would love contributions in:
- Code
- Tutorial - our goal with the tutorial is to add as many common tasks as possible. If you want to create and add your own chapter we would be happy to help you writing and adding it.
- Roadmap - you can add a card about what you want to see in the library or in the tutorial.
- I (Urigo) live around the world with one small bag, so another way of contributing can be by offering me a place to sleep somewhere interesting around the world that I have to see :)
Create your Meteor Project
meteor create myProject
cd myProjectCreate a packages directory and clone from your forked repo
mkdir packages
cd packages
git clone https://github.com/[your_username]/angular-meteor.git my-packageAdd your local package
cd ..
meteor add my-package
Now you can start using your own copy of the angular-meteor project from myProject.
- App initialization
- Data binding (new method to avoid conflicts)
- Using Meteor Collections
- Adding controllers, directives, filters and services
- Routing
- User service
- Meteor methods with promises
- Bind Meteor session
If you have a module called myModule, you can initialize your app like you would normally and by specifying angular-meteor as a dependency:
var myModule = angular.module('myModule', ['angular-meteor']);You don't need to bootstrap the application manually, simply specifying the ng-app attribute on a container element will do.
More in step 0 in the tutorial
From angular-meteor version 0.6 you can use Angular's default template delimiters and there is no need to change them.
However, you need to write your Angular template markup in .ng.html files, since Meteor won't look at those files as Spacebars templates. Tying HTML and .ng.html files together isn't very difficult, we can simply use Angular's ng-include.
Please note that the names of the templates to Angular will be their URL as Meteor sees it when minifying the .ng.html files. Hence every template URL is relative to the root of the Meteor project, and contains no leading forward slash. This is important to note when working with ng-include to include templates.
client/index.html:
<head>
<title>Angular and Meteor</title>
</head>
<body>
<div ng-app="myModule">
<ng-include src="'client/views/user.ng.html'"></ng-include>
<ng-include src="'client/views/settings.ng.html'"></ng-include>
</div>
</body>client/views/user.ng.html:
<div>
<label>Name:</label>
<input type="text" ng-model="yourName" placeholder="Enter a name here">
<h1>Hello {{yourName}}!</h1>
</div>More in step 0 of the tutorial
angular-meteor provides 3-way data binding (view-client-server) by tying a Meteor collection to an Angular model. The API to accomplish this is $meteor.collection.
$scope.todos = $meteor.collection(Todos);More in step 3 of the tutorial
$meteor.subscribe is a wrapper for Meteor.subscribe that returns a promise.
Here's an example of how to tie a Meteor collection to a clean Angular model in the form of an array:
$meteor.subscribe('Todos').then(function () {
$scope.todos = $meteor.collection(Todos);
});When adding controllers and the likes, remember to use Dependency Injection. This is common Angular practice and helps you avoid problems when minifying and obfuscating code.
app.controller('TodoCtrl', ['$scope', '$meteor',
function($scope, $meteor) {
$scope.todos = $meteor.collection(Todos);
$scope.addTodo = function() {
$scope.todos.push({text:$scope.todoText, done:false});
$scope.todoText = '';
};
$scope.saveTodo = function(){
$scope.todos.save($scope.newTodo);
};
}
]);Use to official AngularUI ui-router Meteor package - angularui:angular-ui-router
More on how to actually use angular-ui-router in step 5 of the tutorial
You can include Meteor's native templates with the meteor-include directive.
<template name="todoList">
A couple of todos
</template>
<meteor-include src='todoList'></meteor-include>To pass parameters to a meteor-include directive, create a Blaze template that includes the template you want to include with parameters and include that template with meteor-include:
<template name="quickFormWithParameters">
{{> quickForm collection="Books" id="insertBookForm" type="insert"}}
</template>
<meteor-include src="quickFormWithParameters">
Since 0.6 release, angular-meteor relies more heavily on Angular's default templating system and it is now usually recommended that you use ng-include over meteor-include. This is because you can't use Angular's template delimiters directly within Meteor templates and you would still need to use an ng-include directive to include any Angular template markup in your Meteor templates.
angular-meteor provides complete support for the Meteor accounts system. more details here - Documentation.
More in step 8 of the tutorial
$meteor.call calls a Meteor method and returns a promise.
$meteor.call('addUser', username).then(function (data) {
console.log('User added', data);
});$meteor.session binds a scope variable to a Meteor Session variable.
$meteor.session('counter').bind($scope, 'counter');The following is a non-exhaustive list of Meteor packages common Angular libraries:
- Meteor packages for Angular 3rd party libraries
- civilframe:angular-jade enables the usage of JADE files in place of HTML files. Files ending in *.ng.jade and will be compiled to *.html.
- pbastowski:angular-babel empowers angular-meteor with Babel and ng-annotate all in the one package. Files ending in .es6 will first be transpiled by Babel and then annotated with ng-annotate.
Feel free to make more Angular packages and add them to that list as well.
This project started as ngMeteor, a pre-0.9 meteorite package. Since then a lot has changed but that was the main base.
Also, a lot of features were inspired by @superchris's angular-meteor fork of ngMeteor