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Meteor0.6.0:brandnew distributionsystem,apppackages, NPMintegration

April4,2013Permalink ByMattDeBergalis We'redelightedtoannounceMeteor0.6.0,featuringacompletelynewsystemfordistributingMeteor releasesandupdatingapplications.Meteor0.6.0alsoaddsapplicationspecificpackagesanddirect supportforNPMmodules. Beginningin0.6.0,MeteorapplicationsarepinnedtoaspecificMeteorrelease,andyoucanrun differentMeteorreleasesonthesamecomputer.Meteorusesacontrolfileinyourapplication directorytomarkwhichversionoftheMeteordistributiontheapplicationrequires.Soforeach separateapplication,youdecidewhichspecificversionofMeteoritshoulduse,controlwhento updatetoanewversion,andsynchronizethatupdatewiththerestofyourdevelopmentteamand yourproductiondeployment. Withthenewdistributionsystem,itiseasiertomanagetheupdatecycleforapplications,andto testyourapplicationsagainstnewMeteorreleasesbeforecommittingtoanupdate.We'renowable toshipreleasecandidatesinadvanceofageneralrelease,andcreatecustomreleasesthatletyou tryaproposedbugfixorfeaturestillindevelopment. Meteor0.6.0alsoincludesNPMintegration.Thisaddition,requestedbymanydevelopersinthe community,allowsMeteorpackagestodirectlydependonNPMmodules.WhenyouaddanNPM moduletoapackage,Meteorlocksdownthespecificversionsofeachofitssubdependenciesso thateachcopyofyourapprunsagainstexactlythesamecode. Finally,applicationscannowincludeprivateMeteorpackagesintheir p a c k a g e sdirectory,which canthemselvesspecifyNPMdependencies.Privatepackagesarenowtherecommendedwayto includeNPMmodulesinanapp. Run $ m e t e o ru p d a t etoswitchtothenewdistributionsystem.Ifyou'renewtoMeteor,youcan getstartedonOSXorLinuxbyrunning
$c u r lh t t p s : / / i n s t a l l . m e t e o r . c o m|/ b i n / s h

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Newdistributionsystem
YoucannowhavemultipleMeteorreleasesinstalledsimultaneously.EachMeteorcorepackageis nowseparatelyversioned.AMeteorrelease(suchas0.6.0)isjustadistributionofparticular versionsofeachcorepackage.The m e t e o rcommandlinetoolnowmanagesacacheofcore packagesonyourcomputer.WhenanewMeteorreleaseisavailable,itwilldownloadtheupdated versionsofpackagesinthebackgroundandaddthemtothecache.Onebenefittothisapproachis thatonceinstalled,youcanusealltheavailablereleasesevenwhileoffline,switchingbackand forthbetweenthem. Meteorapplicationsaretiedtoaparticularrelease.Toupdateanapplicationtoanewrelease,run m e t e o ru p d a t einsideitsdirectory.Youcantakethelateststablereleasebydefault,orspecifya particularreleasenamewiththe r e l e a s eoption.Youcanalsousethe r e l e a s eoptiontorun yourapplicationagainstadifferentdistributionversionwithoutupdatingthecontrolfile,soit'seasy totestnewdistributions,orswitchbackandforthbetweenalternatives. Toincludeaprivateapplicationpackage,addittoyourapp's p a c k a g e sdirectory.Theformatisthe sameasacorepackage:adirectorycontaininga p a c k a g e . j sfile.

NPMintegration
Meteorpackages,includingprivateapplicationpackages,canusethenew N p m . d e p e n d sdirective intheir p a c k a g e . j sfiletodependonNPMmodules.There'snoneedtomanuallydownloador installNPMmodules.WhenyouaddanewNPMdependencyin p a c k a g e . j sorupdateaversion specifierwhiledevelopingapackage,Meteorwillautomaticallycalculatesubdependencies,fetch anynecessaryupdatesfromNPMforyou,andrestartyourserverwiththenewcode. Onceincluded,packagecodecanuse N p m . r e q u i r etopullinthemodule. IftheNPMmodulehasarchitecturespecificbinarycomponents,bundlesbuiltwith m e t e o rb u n d l e

or m e t e o rd e p l o ywillcontainthecomponentsasbuiltforthedeveloper'splatformandmaynot runonotherplatforms.

Otherchanges
Thankstothenew0.6.0distributionsystem,Meteornowsupportsanyx86(32or64bit)Linux system,notjustthosewhichuseDebianorRedHatpackagemanagement. We'veaddedfilelevelJavaScriptvariablescoping.Variablesdeclaredwith v a rattheoutermost levelofaJavaScriptsourcefilearenowprivatetothatfile.Removethe v a rtoshareavalue betweenfiles.Ifyou'reusingCoffeeScript,seetheCoffeeScriptpackagedocumentationforhowto shareavaluebetweenfiles. Meteor'sinternalpackagetests(aswellastestsyouaddtoyourapp'spackageswiththe unsupported T i n y t e s tframework)arenowrunwiththenewcommand m e t e o rt e s t p a c k a g e s.

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