Add packaging for Meteor.js, http://meteor.com

[dandv]

Hi David,

I'm a Meteor.js dev and volunteer package maintainer for Meteor. Isotope is a great layout library, and adding it to Meteor's ecosystem will expose it to many new devs (Meteor has 20k+ stars on GitHub), likely bringing in new testers and contributors.

This PR will let you directly publish updated versions of the library as they become available. All you have to do is create an account at https://meteor.com/ (click SIGN IN, then Create account). After you've done that, please let me know the name of the account, and I'll add you as a maintainer.

I've already published the current version of the package on Atmosphere (Meteor's package directory). When you release new versions, you'll be able to publish them to Atmosphere by running

grunt meteor

Thanks & best regards,
Dan, official Meteor integrations team

[desandro]

Hi Dan! Thanks so much for this PR. I appreciate you taking care of everything for me :)

I'd like to keep this PR open for a while to see how much interest there is in Meteor support. Please +1 this issue if you would like to see Meteor support for Isotope.

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I'm hesitant to add support for a couple reasons

• In order to support Meteor I have to add a bunch of extra stuff. Having so many Meteor-specific feels like adding extra clutter. (I feel like publish.sh and runtests.sh are better served as global scripts that should be generalized for all Meteor packages, rather than specific for each project.)
• Another ecosystem to keep track of. Isotope already supports Bower, npm, Browserify, UMD.
• There has been no previous requests for Meteor support in three years.

[wuxianliang]

+1

[wuxianliang]

with packery layout mode in one package is better.

[dandv]

Hi David! Thanks for prodding me to get rid of those .sh files :) Indeed they should be generalized to the process, and I've moved them into a grunt file patch.

As for lack of requests for Isotope & Meteor, that's because we've had a few wrapper packages, that have been getting out of date. One that's still kicking is here. You can see 30 app installs, and that's only since around October, when we started tracking install counts.

As for Meteor being a different package system, that is an acknowledged issue, and there are efforts to update Meteor's packages repository automatically from GitHub. That will take quite a bit of work though, and in the meanwhile I was hoping that we could provide packaging straight from the source. I do understand your concerns though, and I'll leave this up to you.

Best regards,
Dan

[physiocoder]

+1

hopefully even for v1.5

[fpaboim]

+1

[QWp6t]

👍

[silverbuggy]

+1

[superbilk]

+1

[lagden]

+1

[rdibona]

+1 and I'm more than happy to pay for the commercial license.

[dnbkr]

+1 and also worth mentioning that as of now, the current package on atmosphere is at 1,780 installs

[cmaddalozzo]

+1

[dcworldwide]

+1

[Vheissu]

+1

[timneutkens]

@dandv @desandro this pull request can be closed in favor of npm support in Meteor right?

[dandv]

Correct.