Many packages not working for me?

help
1

I feel like many times packages in meteor doesn’t seem to work for me.
Since I’m still new to Meteor I wonder if misunderstood something somewhere.

My understanding is:

  1. You add a package to your project (meteor add author:package)
  2. You fire up meteor (meteor)
  3. You use the package as described

As an example:

I just did this for the matteodem:keybindings package.
Quickly tried to setup kaybindings like advised in on the github page:

Meteor.Keybindings.add({
	'alt+a' : function () { console.log('alt+a'); },
	'alt+b' : function () { console.log('alt+b'); },
	'alt+c' : function () { console.log('alt+c'); }
});

Tried this both on the client and on the server.
My project crashes.

Am I missing something?

2

Hey man. I gave it a go, this package seems to crash your server when you place that code server side (specifically in Meteor.startup()). Crash log reads

TypeError: Cannot call method 'add' of undefined *** at app/keybinding.js:31:24

I then placed it client-side (one again in Meteor.startup() ) and everything worked fine. I hope that helps. Are you getting a different error?

3

Hey markclayton,

thanks fot the help.

Now at least the app doesn’t crash anymore. Thats a step forward.

I placed the whole thing like this:

if (Meteor.isClient) {
	Meteor.startup(function () {
		Meteor.Keybindings.add({
			'alt+a' : function () { console.log('alt+a'); },
			'alt+b' : function () { console.log('alt+b'); },
			'alt+c' : function () { console.log('alt+c'); }
		});
	});
}

I didn’t know that you could place the Meteor.startup on the client side as well.
Makes sense though.

In the console I still get a Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'add' of undefined

Might this be happening because of my folder-structure?

I’ve already set up my “client” and “server” folders, but am not using them yet.
I’m still working in my root, in a big app.js file.

4

Ah yeah. First thing it’s always good to structure your app accordingly, at least using /server /lib and /client. See Reference http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/structuringyourapp . I’m not sure why you are still seeing that bug, as long as it’s running client-side you should be good. Hmm whats the stack trace say?