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!

Meteor API Version

1.0.3.1

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.

Javascript Grammar Select

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

Color Coded Meteor Syntax

Meteor-Api Code Sample

Meteor API Code Snippets

Complete List of Covered Meteor API Syntax

Meteor-Api Grammar

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. (This list will be updated as new packages are added to the Atom ecosystem).

Atom Lint
Atom Beautify
Atom Handlebars
Atom Jshint
Atom Prettify
Autocomplete
Autocomplete +
Bracket Matcher
File Types
Filetype Color
Grammar Selector
Language Spacebars
Meteor Api
Meteor Helper
Wrap Guide

Then open your config.cson file with Atom > Edit > Open Your Config and add the following under global:

  'file-types':
    'html': 'text.html.spacebars'
    'js': 'source.js'

Enabling Handlebars Linting (a bit more hacky)

go to Atom > Preferences > Packages, search for Linter Handlebars and install the package
click on Settings to open its settings page and click on Open in Atom
edit the file linter-handlebars/lib/linter-handlebars.cofee and add text.html.spacebars to the list of supported syntaxes. At the time of writing this list appears on line 7: make sure it eventually looks like:

  @syntax: ['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.

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

Acknowledgements / Contributors

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

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 http://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.

Todo

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

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