A Meteor Desktop Application?

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New edition of Atom Shell, Electron:

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Very interesting, I’d love to see an implementation of a Meteor desktop app using Electron, with it’s cross-platform support it could be exactly what we need to get this into reality.

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@spicemix, do you know if anyone has gotten and Electron app working?

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I’m currently working on a desktop app using Electron.

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Ok I did a client app with Electron and here is the tutorial : https://medium.com/@guidouil/cross-platform-desktop-apps-with-meteor-and-electron-5355eb9e351
It’s only the bases but it does work :slight_smile:

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Here’s what I’ve been working on guys!

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Thanks @guidouil, you just don’t know all the possibilities that your little tutorial opened up for me!

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Charles your framework is fantastic, I used it to develop a game in Meteor, a small scale multiplayer game with accounts and everything, it was incredibly rapid to get started.

I think there might be a future for Meteor as a game development platform, given it’s very easy to build on top of and create addons for. You can alter the user interface with plain HTML and event hooks so easily

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@corvid That is so awesome to hear! Is the game on GitHub? I’d love to add it to the examples! I was literally just telling someone earlier today that it would be cool to make a desktop game with meteor :slight_smile:

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If anyone is interested, we’ve created a nice desktop client app using electron for our https://rocket.chat project.
All the source code is available at https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron

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SWEET. That is awesome news. Rocket Chat Rocks!

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Thanks! Much appreciated :grinning:

Anyone can download the latest Linux, Mac and Windows binaries to see it working at

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Hello There.

I’ve started a project a while ago to specifically run and package meteor apps with Electron, it requires no boilerplate code or learning curve to get started, just add the package and voilà.

It’s another option for those looking to accomplish this meteor+desktop thing. : )


https://atmospherejs.com/arboleya/electrify

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WOW! Who can spot the Meteor app?

Tip: is Rocket.Chat :smile:

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@arboleya
I follow the instructions,

meteor create --example leaderboard
cd leaderboard
meteor add arboleya:electrify
meteor

The process stalled at this:

I20150924-21:59:15.216(2)? electrify:  installing electrified dependencies

I’m waiting 15 minutes ago.

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Hello @eahmedshendy, I’ve released several updates since you post this (sorry for the long delay!).

However I see that you’ve opened this issue, so hopefully you’re following the updates?

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Just saw this now and it does look awesome :slight_smile:

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Reviving an old thread…

Is anyone packaging their app as a desktop application that includes a local server and mongodb these days?

There is the electrify project but it’s getting old now and is not maintained https://github.com/arboleya/electrify

There’s also meteor-desktop but this is a purely client packaging that doesn’t run a local database https://www.npmjs.com/package/meteor-desktop

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‘Not maintained’ or ‘achieved its objectives and no longer providing free development’?

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Not maintained and doesn’t work unfortunately. I got lots of errors with a 1.6 app when trying to use it and others claim the same