Meteor 3 & v4

[StorytellerCZ]

Now that Meteor 3 is out and replacement for this package is still in the discussion phase, I think it might be worth it for interested people to start discussion and work on meteor-desktop v4 that would start with migration to Meteor 3, upgrade of electron to the latest compatible version with Node 20 and probably should not miss #15 (took a dig at it in #40).

Thoughts? Volunteers?

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[a4xrbj1]

Sorry, only saw this now (I brought this up in the TypeScript issue).

I think this is a great plan to go ahead and I’m happy to test any RC/Beta version on my end (once it’s Meteor 3.x compatible).

But yes, we need to catch up to the many versions that ElectronJS is ahead.

[awatson1978]

Hi....
I'm probably going to take a stab at this, as I have a new project that has desktop support as a requirement. Not going to be able to get to it until October. But I've gotten the hang of refactoring from Fibers to ES6 async/await, and this isn't looking too terribly difficult.

/me volunteers

[awatson1978]

Disclaimer: No promises on Typescript support or Node 20 though.

Maybe let's think about meteor-desktop@3.1.0 that just replaces Fibers with ES6 async/await?

[awatson1978]

Okay, refactoring the to async/await syntax was actually pretty straight forward. The dilemma is that the command line utility is trying to force the communitypackages:meteor-desktop-watcher and communitypackages:meteor-desktop-bundler packages at a specific version. So we need to publish the atmosphere packages, then update the command line utility, then publish a new version of meteor-desktop.

Todo

• Publish the atmosphere packages.
• Verify that compiler chain works and creates desktop app.
• Publish the NPM utility.

[awatson1978]

[StorytellerCZ]

Awesome! I'll get around on publishing this now and then we can proceed on other things. Right now just the Fibers removal, no Meteor 3 support or anything else. One step at a time.

[StorytellerCZ]

@awatson1978 got this warning when publishing. Not an issue now, but needs to be fixed before moving to Meteor 3.

[StorytellerCZ]

@awatson1978 everything seems to be working now. How would you like to proceed now?

[a4xrbj1]

@awatson1978 everything seems to be working now. How would you like to proceed now?

Is there a RC out that I can try out, @StorytellerCZ ? Will probably have to build and deploy a new version of our app in the next 6h or so.

[StorytellerCZ]

The latest version has all the changes.

[awatson1978]

Hi! I'll try to give it a test later today!

[awatson1978]

Hmmm... I'm still getting dependency version errors. I've been trying to trace where the version packages are specified, but haven't been able to track it down yet.

[msavin]

I just set up a new Meteor 3 / Blaze app and followed the set up steps... got this error:

=> App running at: http://localhost:3000/
=> Errors prevented startup:                  
   
   While loading plugin `meteor-desktop-bundler` from package `communitypackages:meteor-desktop-bundler`:
   packages/modules-runtime.js:222:12: Cannot find module 'fibers'
   at makeMissingError (packages/modules-runtime.js:222:12)
   at Module.require (packages/modules-runtime.js:241:17)
   at require (packages/modules-runtime.js:258:21)
   at module (packages/promise.js:40:3)
   at fileEvaluate (packages/modules-runtime.js:336:7)
   at Module.require (packages/modules-runtime.js:238:14)
   at require (packages/modules-runtime.js:258:21)
   at packages/promise.js:147:15
   at packages/promise.js:154:3
   
   
=> Your application has errors. Waiting for file change.