The power of Meteor and the simplicity and eco-system of AngularJS
- 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
Use Meteor as a service in your existing non Meteor angular application
- Install meteor-client-side
$ bower install meteor-client-side - Install angular-meteor
$ bower install angular-meteor
- Getting started tutorial
- Example application (Final version of the tutorial)
- angular-meteor University
- Questions and help - stack-overflow
angular-meteortag - Discussions - Angular category on the Meteor Forum and
- Report issues
- Change Log, updates and breaking changes
- Roadmap - Trello board
- angular-meteor Blog
- Starters - angular-meteor Yeoman generator, Angular-Meteor-Boilerplate with TypeScript
- Meteor package - urigo:angular
- Angular-Meteor Platform - No Blaze, plain HTML
- Awesome Meteor - A curated, community driven list of awesome Meteor packages, libraries, resources and shiny thing
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 :)
If you want to contribute and need help or don't know what should you do, you can contact me directly
Create your Meteor Project
meteor create myProject
cd myProjectFork angular-meteor and clone the angular-meteor library to another directory named urigo:angular
mkdir urigo:angular
git clone https://github.com/[your_username]/angular-meteor.git urigo:angular
Create a packages directory under your project's root folder and link your forked repo
cd myProject
mkdir packages
cd packages
ln -s ~/path_to_your_repos/urigo\:angularNow you can start using your own copy of the angular-meteor project from myProject.
In the command line
. run_tests.sh
Then go to localhost:3000 in your browser
- App initialization
- [Templating[#templating]
- Binding to Meteor Collections
- Routing
- User service
- Meteor methods with promises
- Bind Meteor session
Register angular-meteor as a module in our application:
angular
.module('myModule', ['angular-meteor']);More in step 0 in the tutorial
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 ng-app="myModule">
<ng-include src="'client/views/user.ng.html'"></ng-include>
<ng-include src="'client/views/settings.ng.html'"></ng-include>
</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);
});More in step 9 of the tutorial
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>Read more on meteor-include, using parameters and binding Meteor templates to Angular's scope in the API docs.
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);
});More in step 14 of the tutorial
$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