Adding a 3rd party library to Meteor project

Question

I want to add scrollto plugin to my Meteor project

I created package.js like in this tutorial: enter link description here

http://codeshare.io/SeCCt

I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Answer 1

You don't have to create package for that. It's enough if you put the plugin file inside /client/lib/ directory. Please not that in order for your plugin to work, the jquery built-in package must be added to your application, but it should be already there by default.

However, if you really want to create a package for that (sometimes it's useful) you will need to put the plugin source code (e.g. jquery.scrollTo.js) along with the package.js file in a separated subdirectory inside packages/ in your project root. Directory structure should look like this:

.meteor/
client/
packages/
  jquery-scrollto/
    package.js
    jquery.scrollTo.js

and the source of package.js:

Package.describe({
  summary: "A jquery.scrollTo plugin",
  version: "1.2.3", // best to use the version of plugin
  name: "jquery-scrollto",
});

Package.onUse(function (api) {
  api.versionsFrom("METEOR@1.0");
  api.use('jquery', 'client');
  api.addFiles('jquery.scrollTo.js', 'client');
});

Finally add your package name - so jquery-scrollto - to the list in .meteor/packages file.