1.3 Problems - meteorInstall is not defined

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I was really excited about getting started with Meteor for phone app development. But it already seems like things are unnecessarily difficult, and getting a BASIC Cordova app running is a problem. I’ve spent the last 3 hours just trying to build the project. I put my script dependencies in a lib folder inside the client folder and it would always freeze when building where I couldn’t even use Ctrl + C, but had to use some cryptic command to kill the process (new to Mac, in fact I got my first Mac specifically for Meteor development so this is frustrating to say the least). I read that this is a problem with 1.3. One guy said move the scripts to public folder and then embed them in the head. I did that, and it at least built. But then it appears to be making an app.js file and breaking on line 1.

In Google Chrome I get an error message regarding this line var require = meteorInstall({“client”:{“app”:{“pages”:…

Uncaught ReferenceError: meteorInstall is not defined.

Can anyone help me? It seemed that < 1.3 seemed to be better…

Otherwise it may be back to Firebase trying to learn their data structure and rules… :frowning:

Thanks,

Kevin

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Is there a way to downgrade to version ~1.2? I watched a couple different videos on Safari Books Online and it appears the concepts are no longer relevant…grrrr…

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I’ve been having this exact same error, but only in Chrome. Seems perplexing.

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I am upgrading my Meteor 1.2 project to 1.,3 and have hit a similar issue, but with a server - side application package.
It seems the Meteor code generator is not inserting a var meteorInstall = Package.modules.meteorInstall; declaration in the .meteor/local/build/programs/server/packages/my-package.js file, so that the following var require = meteorInstall({"node_modules":{"meteor": ... fails.

All works fine in 1.2.

** UPDATE: Found the problem. The meteor package package.js file did not add ecmascript as a dependency on the server. It worked OK after I added it:

  api.use(['ecmascript'], 'server');
  api.addFiles(['intercom-server.js'], 'server');

Maybe that was the root cause of your issue too? I have been hit by this same issue in my app-level packages (missing ecmascript dependency) several times after updating my app from 1.1 to 1.2, but each time it seemed to manifest itself in annoyingly - different ways.

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I get the same issue (started happening when updated to 1.3.2.2) in the compiled app.js file on the first line:

var require = meteorInstall({"client":{"components":{"layout":{"footer":{"template.footer.ng.js":function(require,exports,module){

Fix by @rsbatech is not applicable since it’s not a package that’s having issue, but the app itself.

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I’m seeing the same issue as rsbatech and cactusss. There was no problem when I upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3, but I’ve since tried 1.3.1, 1.3.2 and 1.3.2.2 and keep getting this error.

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@rsbatech 's solution worked for me. An old package I wrote needed ecmascript server-side.

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Having the same error as @cactusss since upgrading from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2.4.

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@sungwoncho I got my issue fixed. It looks like it got broken by “force updating” indirect dependencies.

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@cactusss glad to hear you got your issue fixed, and you’ve given a pointer as to the cause - but what did you actually do to fix your issue please?! cheers

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@andylorenz I still don’t know upgrading what exact package caused the issue. What I did is removed and re-added packages without force updating them.

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I’ve got the same error a while ago with Meteor 1.3.2.4.

In my case I’ve solved with $ rm -rf node_modules in my project folder, and then $ npm install.

Hope this helps.

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I am also getting this error - haven’t seen any evidence of anything wrong with my packages

Uncaught refereceError: meteorInstall is not defined app.js:1

app.js:1:
var require = meteorInstall({“client”:{“pages”:{“assignment”:{“questionItem”:{“template.questionItem.js”:function(){

fresh install of node_modules didn’t work for me… Is this a meteor package that has gone missing from my project? Anybody else experiencing this error? Not sure how to track this down as I wasn’t editing the code when my project stopped working.

EDIT:

This error is due to missing or inaccessible packages - somehow my package file was altered and I undid the change with git. Unfortunately I’m not sure what line actually caused the issue.

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Just had this error with 1.4.2.3 and found out my adblocker (uBlock) was the culprit. Disabling it on localhost allowed me to continue my development in chrome

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