Adding packages like moment.js & account.js to meteor Project - package

How do I add these JS packages to a meteor project? Do I simply place the JS files in the public folder so the client and server can access them? Or is there some specific steps that I need to follow?

These kind of standalone libraries can be directly placed in the /lib directory under your project.
For use on both the client and the server, place them into project/lib folder.
Or if you want to use them only at client-side, place them as usual in project/client/lib

In short, It depends.
I would recommend you check out http://atmosphere.meteor.com for a list of packages. If what you're looking for is there, install meteorite with npm install -g meteorite (https://github.com/oortcloud/meteorite)
Once you have metorite installed you can install these community packages quite easily using mrt add packagename
Most packages are on http://atmosphere.meteor.com.
But if for some reason the JS package you want isn't on atmosphere, depending on the package, if its a UI package (e.g datepicker, etc) put it in the /client/lib folder to avoid meteor crashing (only accessible by client).
If its a type of module abstractor (e.g backbone - backbone is included in meteor already btw: add using meteor add backbone) you could put it in the /lib directory of your package, it will be referenced automatically by both the server and client.

You have to add the packages via console.
Type "meteor add accounts-password" for example.
See here
Perhaps you should watch some of these videos here
to get an idea how meteor packages are added.

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create-react-app taking up too much disk space and time

It's my first experience with react and as stated in official docs, I was trying out create-react-app to create my first react app.
But I notice that it takes around 15-20 minutes to get finished( even though I have good internet connection) and once it was completed, I noticed the space taken by the newly created folder to be around 165-170 MB.
Isn't there any quicker way to get started with react as the above mentioned method probably installs some modules that are never going to be used.
Thank You.
I also faced the same problem when i first started learning react. What i did was i manually configured webpack to bundle my code. And then i created central node_modules folder in particular place. So anytime i want start a react project i just create a symlink to the node_modules folder. And also if i want install a new package, i go the central folder and install it, so the package will be available in the node_modules folder and for any of my project that may need it. That way i only need to install a package once not every time i want to use it for a new project.
But recently i found a package manager called pnpm. Instead of downloading a package anytime need to install it, pnpm maintains a central cache of packages such that anytime you want to install a package, it just creates a symlink(or junction in windows) (similar to what i used to do).
Conclusion
In conclusion i would recommend you to just configure a bundler (vite is cool) by yourself and use pnpm to install packages. You can read more about pnpm on there website

Deploy React components to many personal projects

I hope this is a reasonable forum for this question.
I have a library of React components that I've developed that I'd like to use in multiple personal projects. When I update/improve that library I'd like it to allow me to update in all projects where it is used.
I'm using Meteor as a build tool, which will prompt me when there is an update available for a dependency it's using, so I assume it'd be an NPM module or something. It is checked in to GitHub and I don't mind if it's public.
What would be the best way to achieve this?
I know two ways:
Publish your module on NPM
Link using npm link
For the first one, your module will be public unless you pay NPM for a private module.
The second one, make your module available locally only (It is used for a development purpose, but it fits your needs).
https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/link
If you have your package published on GitHub, you can simply create dependency by linking to tarball/master. If your path is https://github.com/my-nick/my-package, just add to your dependencies in your project's package.json:
"my-package": "https://github.com/my-nick/my-package/tarball/master"
If you have your package well described (package.json file with name, main and version attributes) it should works after meteor npm install.
Of course it works for Meteor 1.3 and higher only, lower versions don't support npm.
I did not use is personally yet, but an frequently mentioned tool for this purpose is https://lernajs.io/, which is e.g. used by create-react-app.

Angular2 with maven project

I have a question, I want to use angular 2 in maven project, and as you now the modules should download with ( npm install or ng new .. (cli) ).
The problem is if I generate the war file with all this modules, it will be very large because of the presence of all the nodejs modules.
In one of Github example they install this modules with ( npm install ) and finally goes to the home directory and run spring-boot:run
I want directly deploy my war file, so my question is : i should generate the war file with the all the modules and dependencies of nodejs or there is another solution ?
Three ways:
add all node_modules dependencies in to your version control, so source is always there, or copy necessary js libraries manually in specific source folder, like angular.min.js and so on (if your node.js is not available on your server, by security reason)
create execution goal inside pom.xml, something like
How to deploy a node.js app with maven?
use https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin and check existing examples, I am sure your case is straight forward

Is there an official nuget package for Angular 2?

I'm currently working in a work environment where I do not have access to npm / node. The npm download location is actually blocked so I can't get any packages.
I want to build an Angular 2 site. As I can't access npm, I want to use Nuget to get the files. Although I can see the Angular 1 packages, I cannot seem to see any Angular 2 packages. Is there one for Nuget?
Also, is populating the node_module folder and compiling the Typescript the only thing that npm does for Angular? If I can just get a copy of the node_module folder (from outside work) and get TypeScript working in my solution, can I basically bypass the need for npm?
In short; No.
You can see a list of all available NuGet package versions here, with the most recent being 1.5.3.
Even performing a generic search shows most recent versions as 1.5.3.
Sometimes they'll have beta versions of packages available that you can install with a command similar to: Install-Package EntityFramework -Version 6.1.3-beta1 -Pre, but it doesn't appear as if they have created any pre-release packages.
So, as #Michal Dymel mentioned, you could get it from a CDN or some other location.

How to create a personally hosted package registry like bower

I'm looking to create a package registry for components or add-ons for the Ionic Framework, where one would be able to:
View / search packages on a website
Upload new packages (components) to the registry
Download packages from the registry
It would almost be a replica of the Bower registry. There would be a nice front-end for viewing and searching the available components inside of the registry. And a CLI would be necessary for downloading and uploading the packages/components from and to the registry.The registry could link to git/github repos just like bower.
Basically I'm asking how does Bower work, how does it store all of the packages? how does the CLI download the package for the github repo? And how can I replicate it for my own personal use?
Ideally I would like to write the whole thing in NodeJS + MongoDB + AngularJs.
Bower uses your repo Git tags to manage module versioning, it doesn't store the code like npm does. Each time you push a new Tag to GitHub it becomes available as a version for your Bower module. Bower simply constructs the tar/zip/git (not 100% sure which it uses) download link for the Git tag.
Bower does have a DB of course to manage users and published modules.

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