How to create NPM packages that work on client and server for meteor?

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Let’s say I want to have a very simple package. It will only extend a normal Socket.

import {Socket} from 'net';
export class SpecialSocket extends Socket {
  constructor() {
    super(...arguments);
  }
  connect() {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      this.once('connect', resolve).once('error', reject);
      super.connect(...arguments);
    });
  }
}

Now I want to be able to have this on the client AND the server, but on the client, it will just make a promisified call to the server that returns when it is done.

How is this done with NPM and meteor?

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Meteor supports the browser field that’s also used by Browserify and Webpack:

So basically you can just have your package load different code on the client by setting:

browser: './path/to/browser-version.js'
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Perfect! Thank you Sashko

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