Package Based Architecture - Where to place static assets?

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Hi everyone,

I’m refactoring a project I’ve been working on to a package based architecture to help out as it grows. I’m having a problem figuring out where to place my static assets in a package. The /public folder doesn’t seem to work inside a package. Has anyone else had this issue? What did you do to fix it?

Thanks,
Brandon

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You can add static assets to any package and they will be served by meteor. The easiest way to demonstrate this is with an example. Have a look at the source for hopscotch.

The package contains an img directory with the file sprite-green-0.3.png. If you look at the package.js file you can see that it gets added to the client with:

api.addFiles('img/sprite-green-0.3.png', 'client');

After adding the package to your project, you can access the file directly with this URL:

http://localhost:3000/packages/hopscotch/img/sprite-green-0.3.png

In summary, you can use api.addFiles to add static assets. All assets will be accessable under a path like /packages/[package name]/[path to asset].

Note that you can add {isAsset: true} as a third argument to addFiles for assets which should not be automatically loaded. This post contains an example of its use.

Source:

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Yes that worked. Thank you!

Edit: I initially thought it was working fine, but there appears to be a load order issue with some routes. When I navigate to the app initially, all of the static assets appear to load. After navigating to a few different routes, and then returning to root route, those static assets appear to load after the templates, causing them to appear as failed links (when I inspect, the assets are still there). Does anyone have any ideas why the load order changes as I navigate around the app?

Edit2: I figured out my error. I was missing a ‘/’ at the beginning of the path.