iron

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

Version

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.

Installation

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

Coffeescript Support

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.

Usage

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

Commands

Create an Application

$ 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

Run Your Application

$ iron run

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

Run the Application with a Different Environment

$ iron run --env=staging

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

Debug Your Application

$ iron debug

Build Your Application

$ iron build

Deploy Your Application on Heroku

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.

Generators

$ 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

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

Contributing

Contributions and ideas are welcome.

Tests

To run tests

npm test

License

MIT

bearclough/iron-cli