A command line scaffolding tool for Meteor applications. It automatically creates project structure, files and boilerplate code.

Note: You are looking at a development version. To see what has been released, click the branch dropdown menu and choose the tag for the latest release. For example, for version 0.2.5 click branch: master -> Tags -> 0.2.5.

Install the iron command line tool globally so you can use it from any project directory.

$ npm install -g iron-meteor

This replaces the em command line tool.

You can remove the meteor-em tool like this:

$ npm uninstall -g meteor-em

You can upgrade an existing project either by hande or by using the migrate command like this:

./my-app

$ iron migrate

I need help creating templates for coffeescript, less, scss, jade, etc. Please open an issue if you'd like to help on one of these!

The reason is that I rewrote the way the command line tool works with different engines. But in doing so, I ran out of time to add back all the various engine templates. It's just a matter of adding the corresponding templates in each of the template folders. For example, if you have template.js, we need to create template.js.coffee.

Use the help command to get a list of the top level commands.

$ iron help

Use the g command to see a list of generators.

$ iron g

$ iron create my-app

The application will have the following directory structure:

my-app/
 .iron/
   config.json
 bin/
 build/
 config/
   development/
     env.sh
     settings.json
 app/
   client/
     collections/
     lib/
     stylesheets/
     templates/
     head.html
   lib/
     collections/
     controllers/
     methods.js
     routes.js
   packages/
   private/
   public/
   server/
     collections/
     controllers/
     lib/
     methods.js
     publish.js
     bootstrap.js

$ iron run 

This will automatically load your config/development/env.sh and config/development/settings.json files.

$ iron run --env=staging

This will use the config files in config/staging instead.

$ iron debug

$ iron build

Iron projects require buildpacks to look for the app in /app/ in addition to the root for deployments to work. Currently there is a patched version of the Horse buildpack available that is compatible with Iron based projects. Use this fork until the patches has been added to the main Horse repo.

$ heroku config:set BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/lirbank/meteor-buildpack-horse.git

This will build your application and put the resulting bundle into the project's build folder.

$ iron g:scaffold todos
$ iron g:template todos/todo_item
$ iron g:controller webhooks/stripe --where "server"
$ iron g:route todos/show_todo
$ iron g:collection todos
$ iron g:publish todos
$ iron g:stylesheet main

Meteor commands will automatically be proxied to the meteor command line tool.

Contributions and ideas are welcome.

To run tests

npm test

MIT