Question

When you make a project with the Meteor framework, it packages all the files together, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to explicitly say “I want this file to be loaded before that one”.

Let’s say, for example, I have 2 javascript files: foo.js and bar.js.

The file bar.js is actually containing code depending one the one inside foo.js but Meteor is loading bar.js before foo.js, breaking the project.

• In node.js I would simply use require('./bar') inside foo.js
• In the browser, I would put a <script> tag pointing to foo.js and another, after, pointing to bar.js, in order to load the files in the correct order.

How can we do that in Meteor?

Answer 1

According to the Meteor documentation, files are currently loaded in this order:

1. Files in [project_root]/lib are loaded first
2. Files are sorted by directory depth. Deeper files are loaded first.
3. Files are sorted in alphabetical order.
4. main.* files are loaded last.

Source:
http://docs.meteor.com/#structuringyourapp