METEOR.md

How to use ironNode with Meteor?

Draft (need help to make this work)

So far we are only able to debug meteor builds compiled with --debug .

The following is what we want to do in future. Note this is a Windows example, but it should be easy for you to adapt for Linux and OS X. Feel free to contribute to submit your notes for other platforms!

Find global meteor installation folder on your machine

$ where meteor;
# C:\Users\Stephan\AppData\Local\.meteor\meteor.bat

Compile all native modules used by meteor

$ cd C:\Users\Stephan\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages;
$ iron-node --compile

Create an alias for meteor as iron-meteor

$ cd c:\Users\Stephan\AppData\Local\.meteor\;
$ cp -rp meteor.bat iron-meteor.bat;

Edit iron-meteor.bat
~~"%~dp0\packages\meteor-tool\1.1.3\mt-os.windows.x86_32\meteor.bat" %*~~
"%~dp0\packages\meteor-tool\1.1.3\mt-os.windows.x86_32\iron-meteor.bat" %*

$ cd c:\Users\Stephan\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.1.3\mt-os.windows.x86_32\; 
$ cp -rp meteor.bat iron-meteor.bat;

Edit iron-meteor.bat
~~"%~dp0\dev_bundle\bin\node.exe" "%~dp0\tools\main.js" %*~~
iron-node "%~dp0\tools\main.js" %*

Start Meteor projects with ironNode instead of Meteor

$ cd your-meteor-project;
$ iron-meteor;