Packaging 3rd party libraries PROPERLY
Dan Dascalescu / @dandv
2014-Dec-04
This talk's interactive
slides.com/dandvd
Show of hands
Has anyone used Bootstrap?
K, how about Moment.js?
Alright,
Font Awesome?
Atmosphere situation
The problems with these packages
(where do I start)
Out of date
Let's flag this baby !
The old 'mrt' days
Let's flag this baby !
When it's not the authors...
Let's flag this baby !
mrt add bootstrap
...is gone
You must remember
meteor add mizzao:bootstrap-3
There's a better way
the
original!
Fork
(and submit a PR)
Who's in?
- momentjs:moment
- fortawesome:fontawesome
- d3js:d3
- twbs:bootstrap
- summernote:summernote
- hammer:hammer
- keyboardjs:keyboardjs
What do we get?
Same-day updates
straight from the source
No more outdated wrapper packages
(that's where your flagging comes in!)
Atmosphere versioning
Minifying/
concatenating/
bundling
Offline/
intranet/
https
Nothing beats "straight from the author"
Paves the way for reactivity
Meteor-specific features
...and builds Meteor awareness
Takeaways
You can do it!
Atmosphere namespace
Ask @dandv for namespaces!
Star official packages
