How to install Meteorite for windows?

Question

How to install Meteroite for windows? I am new to Meteor.I try to install Router But before installing the Router i known it first has to install Meteorite.But Meteorite installation only for Linux and ios.So is there any possibility to install Meteorite in Windows?

Answer 1

Meteorite is not available for windows as at the time of this post.

You can still install the packages in your app though.

1) You would go to atmosphere.meteor.com and find the package you want e.g iron-router

2) Look for the git of the repository, for iron-router its https://github.com/EventedMind/iron-router.git

3) Create a folder called packages in your meteor app if it does not already exist.

4) git clone the repository into the packages directory i.e git clone https://github.com/EventedMind/iron-router

5) Rename the folder so it becomes the package name iron-router stays the same but some packages will be cloned with different folder names, i.e meteor-analytics has to be renamed to analytics

6) Add your package to meteor with meteor add iron-router in the root directory of your project.

Answer 2

We have a branch of meteorite that does work well on windows.

https://github.com/oortcloud/meteorite/tree/windows-updates

It should just require cloning the repo (or downloading the zip file) and running NPM install on it.

Also, http://win.meteor.com maintains an unofficial version of Meteor for windows. I use it and it works pretty well.

If you have issues making this work, let me know. Thanks.

Sean