Meteor Common Mistakes and Solutions

 Meteor is an awesome full stack java script platform for modern web developers, Since I started Using Meteor recently thought  of writing an article helping the beginners to skip few common mistakes I did at the Beginning, Hoping to update this post in future .

1. Using Meteor Mongo Database In The command Line while you have an existing version of Mongo db in the Computer

   
   Since Meteor bundle automatically contains Mongo Database  Meteor projects will be using that as their database server. Solution is very simple while your project is running ,open another command line and type : meteor mongo
   

   

2.  Insert failed ‘/post/insert’ Not found

    

   If you wish to do something like this  "Sales = new Mongo.Collection('sales');" A shared code in Your Meteor project. This has to be done in a shared location , Mostly recommended pattern is to create a lib folder and add shared code there .
   for more patterns see :  the docs114
   
   
   



3.   No compatible binary build found for this package. Contact the package author and ask them to publish it for your platform. while adding accounts-password package to your meteor application   

   

   This most probably happens because you have an old version of bcrypt update your bcrypt version using meteor add npm-bcrypt@0.8.7 

   And now try meteor add accounts-password again

    

4.   Expected identifier, number, string, boolean, null, or a subexpression enclosed in "(", ")"

   This mostly occurs when you are trying to use access field names which has a dash "-" from the template 
   
   something like {{ first-name }}  
   
   
   https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/1602