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Some best practices while developing meteor.js apps

Recently I was working as a consultant for a meteor.js app, reviewing the entire codebase, and came across some of the common mistakes the developer makes when writing his/her first meteor.js app. Though some of them are trivial, some others can have bigger consequences on the security

Restricting users signup to a particular domain in meteor.js

If you want to restrict the user registration to a particular domain only, say for e.g.: codingarena.in, then you can do the same by adding the following code: Accounts.config({restrictCreationByEmailDomain:'codingarena.in'});

Format time using moment.js in meteor

If you want to format a time field from you database, say for e.g.: createdAt, the following helper can be used. UI.registerHelper('formatTime', function(context, options) { if(context) return moment(context).format('MM/DD/YYYY'); }); An alternate way would be to write a helper

Masonry in meteor.js

Code snippet to make masonry work with meteor.js Template.activity_feed.rendered = function () { $('.masonry-container').isotope({ itemSelector: '.item', layoutMode: 'masonry', masonry: { columnWidth: 200, gutterWidth: 5 } }) };

Manually insert users from seed file with accounts-password

One of the easiest way to seed users/admin-user into the system is by running the following on the server when it starts: Meteor.startup(function() { if (Meteor.users.find().count() === 0) { Accounts.createUser({ username: 'test', email: 'me@til.codes', password: 'password' }); } });

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