This project provides a template, instructions and solutions to some of the issues we suspect we will hit when setting up a simple Meteor app that utilises Australian energy rating datasets to do simple analysis.
- Create meteor project
- Add .gitignore
- Create git repository and do initial commit
- Add standard packages (meteor add)
- underscore
- jquery
- coffeescript
- less
- Add meteorite packages then commit (if you get a “there was a problem checking out tag” error, use mrt uninstall —system to kill the .meteorite directory, then try again)
- bootstrap3-less ([https://github.com/simison/bootstrap3-less/], [https://getbootstrap.com])
- npm
- select2
- select2-bootstrap3-css
- iron-router ([https://github.com/EventedMind/iron-router])
- Add the csvtojson npm package ([https://github.com/Keyang/node-csvtojson]) by editing the packages.json file: "csvtojson": "0.3.11"
- Bring in the bootstrap stylesheet and link to the fonts:
- Create a styles.less file in the root folder and add @import "/packages/bootstrap3-less/bootstrap.import.less";
- cd public
- ln -s ../packages/bootstrap3-less/lib/fonts ./
- Setup our directory structure and delete the boilerplate example files
- client
- lib
- pages
- lib
- methods
- models
- server
- methods
- client
- Create a head.html file in a new client/pages/layout directory '' '' <title>GovHack</title> '' '' '' '' '' ''
- Create home and admin page templates and .coffee files with simple routing: e.g.
Router.map ->
@route 'admin',
path: '/admin'
template: 'admin'
- Add a “categories” collection and prepopulate it
- Add file upload code to the admin page front and backends
- Remove the insecure and autopublish packages and setup publish and subscribe rules for categories and energyRatings
- Add some category row counts to the admin screen
- Pick and add a (free) bootstrap theme
- [https://bootswatch.com/] (lumen, united, flatly are nice)
- [https://www.bootstrapzero.com/bootstrap-templates]
- [https://startbootstrap.com] (grayscale is nice and might work OK - [https://startbootstrap.com/templates/grayscale/])
- [https://gratisography.com/] open source images
- Assuming we decide to go with the “grayscale” theme, we will need to install jquery easing:
- $ mrt add jquery-easing
- Change the background images from the grayscale theme to something more appropriate