Meteor API for the Atom Editor

Bring Isomorphic Meteor javascript to the editor with autocomplete, code snippets, color-coded grammar, syntax highlighting, and more! Code faster and with fewer mistakes!

THIS PACKAGE IS DEPRECATED. THE APM ACCOUNT IT WAS PUBLISHED UNDER WAS CORRUPTED DURING AN APM UPGRADE, AND I AM NO LONGER ABLE TO PUBLISH UPDATES. PLUS, I NO LONGER USE ATOM AS MY PRIMARY CODE EDITOR. FEEL FREE TO FORK AND MAINTAIN IT YOURSELF.

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Meteor API Version

1.0.3.1

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Installation

Simply go to Atom > Preferences > Packages, search for Meteor Api, and install the package! Then just be sure to select Javascript (Meteor) as your grammar.

If you'd like to permanently make all javascript default to the Javascript (Meteor) grammar, disable the language-javascript package!

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Color Coded Meteor Syntax

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Meteor API Code Snippets

Complete List of Covered Meteor API Syntax

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Setting Up Atom As an Integrated Development Environment

If you want even more Meteor integration, try installing the following packages for an integrated, isomorphic, pure-javascript development environment.

atom-bootstrap3
atom-handlebars
color-picker
copy-filename
jsformat
language-html
language-spacebars
less-autocompile
line-count
linter
linter-eslint
linter-handlebars
merge-conflicts
meteor-api
meteor-helper
minimap
starrynight-helper

Enabling Handlebars Linting (a bit more hacky)

1. go to Atom > Preferences > Packages, search for linter-handlebars and install the package
2. after the instllation finished, click on the package linter-handlebars to open its settings page and click on View Code
3. edit the file linter-handlebars/lib/linter-handlebars-provider.coffee and add text.html.spacebars to the list of supported grammars. At the time of writing this list appears on line 7: make sure it eventually looks like:

  grammarScopes: ['text.html.handlebars', 'source.hbs', 'source.handlebars', 'text.html.spacebars']

Please be aware that you might need to repeat this editing operation everytime the package linter-handlebars gets updated.

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Open Files From the Command Line

If you haven't created a symlink for atom, try the following snippet to launch Atom from the command line.

# link your atom binary so it can be run from the command line
sudo ln -s /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/MacOS/Atom /usr/local/bin/atom

# open a file
meteor create helloworld
cd helloworld
atom helloworld.js

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Linting Tools

1. Install the eslint node package:

npm install -g eslint

2. Install the linter, and linter-eslint atom packages from

apm install jsformat
apm install linter
apm install linter-eslint

3. Check that the packages are configured correctly. You might need to add /usr/local as your NPM prefix for linter-eslint.

4. Copy over .eslintrcto get started.

.eslintrc

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Acknowledgements / Contributors

A big shoutout to ThusStyles for piecing together the original meteor-snippets atom package! And to zaku-eu for language-spacebars!

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Hacking on the Package

Want to make modifications? Take a look at your ~/.atom/packages directory. You should find ~/.atom/packages/meteor-api. Move that somewhere, and clone this repo where it used to be. (You'll want to fork it first to your own account.)

# download the meteor-api package to the correct location
cd ~/.atom/packages
mv meteor-api meteor-api-bkup
git clone https://github.com/damonmcminn/meteor-api
cd meteor-api

# make sure you're on a feature branch 
git branch
git checkout -b syntax-highlighting

# open a new atom editor in the current directory
# we're using atom to hack on an atom package; spiffy recursive recursive!
atom .  

You'll then want to go into the meteor-api/grammars/ directory and start hacking on meteor-api-grammar-javascript.cson and the other files there.

The hotkey command to reload the packages into Atom is Control+Option+Command+L.

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Todo

• Blaze Syntax Highlighting
• Handelbars/Spacebars Syntax
• Meteor Version of Autocomplete
• Meteor Version of Extract Method

ctags -R . for extracting method definitions; add ctags file to meteor projects