TernJS plugin: Meteor

This is a plugin for TernJS bringing support for Meteor JavaScript Framework. Tested on Vim and Sublime Text 2/3, reported to work on Emacs, potentially should work on Brackets, LightTable and any other CodeMirror-based editors.

Checkout my presentation on Meteor Devshop 11: Videos and Slides. The mailing thread for this project is here on meteor-talk.

Gif Demos

Types based auto-completion:

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Supported features specific to Meteor

• each file is wrapped in a scope
• global variable are global project-wise
• interface definitions converted from meteor.ts.d

Todo features

• correctly calculate package scope and their exports
• some auto-completion based on Templates names would be nice
• generate docs from docs.meteor.com
• load all Meteor related JS files on the load of any file
• parsing of handlebars template?

Installation for Sublime Text 2/3

Demo Video of Sublime Text

• install Package Control (https://sublime.wbond.net/installation)
• install sublime-tern plugin (cmd+shift+p -> install package -> TernJS -> restart sublime)
• cd to Sublime Text packages directory (~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages on Mac OS X) (Is your TernJS package fetched as binary file? see here)
• cd TernJS/ternjs/plugin
• copy over meteor.js file here
• create a new sublime project, save it, add files
• edit project configuration (menu->project->edit project)
• edit the json file in this manner:

    {
      "folders":
      [
               ... don't touch this part, leave it as it was ...
      ],
      // add this! ternjs object
      "ternjs": {
        "libs": ["browser", "underscore", "jquery"],
        "plugins": {
          "meteor": {}
        }
      }
    }

Installation for Vim

Demo Video of Vim

You check out my Vim setup which is already optimized for Meteor development: GitHub repo. Or you can get it to your setup:

• Install tern-vim plugin with your favorite package manager for Vim.
• cd to .vim folder, tern_for_vim plugin folder and run npm install to fetch tern npm module.
• Download meteor.js file (from this repo) to tern's folder called plugins.
• In your Meteor project create a file .tern-project with the contents similar to:

    {
      "libs": [
        "browser",
        "jquery",
        "underscore"
      ],
      "loadEagerly": [ "*.js", "*/*.js", "*/*/*.js", "*/*/*/*.js" ],
      "dontLoad": [ ".meteor" ],
      "plugins": {
        "meteor": {}
      }
    }

Note: ignore files in .meteor folder. Load all JS if possible.