Question

These are the steps I am executing:

# meteor create helloworld

# cd helloworld

# meteor

Terminal displays Running on: http://localhost:3000/

I point the browser to http://localhost:3000/

Everything looks ok in the browser, I see Hello World!. I click on the [Click] button. Nothing happens, no alert in browser. I switch to the terminal anticipating to see You pressed the button but all I see is Running on: http://localhost:3000/ I don’t see You pressed the button anywhere in client or server.

So in helloworld.js, what is the following code snippet supposed to do?

Template.hello.events = {
    'click input' : function () {
      // template data, if any, is available in 'this'
      if (typeof console !== 'undefined')
        console.log("You pressed the button");
    }
  };
}

My best guess is in the terminal below the line Running on: http://localhost:3000/ You pressed this button will appear everytime I click on the button but nothing happens.

Answer 1

Check the console in your browser. If you’re using Chrome access the console using Tools -> Javascript Console. You’ll see tabs like Elements, Resources… Go to the last one ‘Console’. You could also use Ctrl+Shift+J to access the Javascript console.