Meteor app can't find routes - meteor

Question

New to meteor. Just cloned a git repo, and upon launching the app, I get a router.js:347 There is no route for the path: / error.
This is my route for root in imports/startup/client/routes.js
FlowRouter.route('/', {
name: 'Home',
action() {
BlazeLayout.render('app_body', {tabs: 'tabs', inbox: 'inbox', upload: 'upload', invite: 'invite'});
console.log('root loaded');
},
});
Here is the list of packages
accounts-facebook 1.0.10 Login service for Facebook accounts
accounts-password 1.2.14* Password support for accounts
alanning:roles 1.2.15 Authorization package for Meteor
aldeed:collection2 2.9.1 Automatic validation of insert and update operations on the client and server.
aldeed:simple-schema 1.5.3 A simple schema validation object with reactivity. Used by collection2 and autoform.
arillo:flow-router-helpers 0.5.2 Template helpers for flow-router
blaze-html-templates 1.0.4 Compile HTML templates into reactive UI with Meteor Blaze
check 1.2.3 Check whether a value matches a pattern
dburles:collection-helpers 1.0.4 Transform your collections with helpers that you define
ecmascript 0.5.7* Compiler plugin that supports ES2015+ in all .js files
email 1.1.16* Send email messages
es5-shim 4.6.13* Shims and polyfills to improve ECMAScript 5 support
hpx7:youtube-iframe-player 0.4.15 Control YouTube's embedded player using Meteor
http 1.2.8* Make HTTP calls to remote servers
jazeee:spiderable-longer-timeout 1.2.13 Extended spiderable package: SSL, caching, longer timeout, no stdin issues, publish flag
jchristman:tagsinput-autocomplete-edited 1.1.0+ A combination of the mizzao:autocomplete library and a tagsinput-like functionality
jquery 1.11.9 Manipulate the DOM using CSS selectors
kadira:blaze-layout 2.3.0 Layout Manager for Blaze (works well with FlowRouter)
kadira:flow-router 2.12.1 Carefully Designed Client Side Router for Meteor
keepnox:perfect-scrollbar 0.6.8 Perfect-scrollbar packaged for meteor
manuel:reactivearray 1.0.5 Reactive Array for Meteor
matb33:collection-hooks 0.8.3* Extends Mongo.Collection with before/after hooks for insert/update/remove/find/findOne
meteor-base 1.0.4 Packages that every Meteor app needs
meteorhacks:aggregate 1.3.0 Proper MongoDB aggregations support for Meteor
mobile-experience 1.0.4 Packages for a great mobile user experience
momentjs:moment 2.14.4 Moment.js (official): parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates - official Meteor packaging
mongo 1.1.10* Adaptor for using MongoDB and Minimongo over DDP
reactive-dict 1.1.8 Reactive dictionary
reactive-var 1.0.10 Reactive variable
sacha:spin 2.3.1 Simple spinner package for Meteor
saucecode:timezoned-synced-cron 1.2.11 Fork of original w/ timezone support. Define and run scheduled jobs across multiple servers.
session 1.1.6 Session variable
spiderable 1.0.13 Makes the application crawlable to web spiders
standard-minifier-css 1.1.8* Standard css minifier used with Meteor apps by default.
standard-minifier-js 1.1.8* Standard javascript minifiers used with Meteor apps by default.
tomwasd:flow-router-seo 0.0.3 A simple way to set the title and meta tags for sites using flow router
tracker 1.1.0 Dependency tracker to allow reactive callbacks
twbs:bootstrap 3.3.6 The most popular front-end framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
What is it that is causing the app not to find the routes file? I have looked through the following posts for some guidance, but have found none.
Meteor Routing Error : There is no route for the path: /
https://github.com/kadirahq/flow-router/issues/608
https://github.com/kadirahq/flow-router/issues/185
http://coderchronicles.org/2016/04/08/getting-started-with-meteor-1-3-react-and-flowrouter/
Any help solving the problem would be appreciated. I feel like I'm missing something simple.
-S
**project file structure
imports/
startup/
client/
index.js
routes.js
server/
fixtures.js
index.js
api/
server/
publications.js
ui/
components/
layouts/
pages/
client/
main.js
head.js
main.js
server/
main.js
fixtures.js
server-global.js

Answer 1

Are you importing the routes file into your app's main container?
For example, if you have a /client/main.js file that gets loaded from client side at startup, then it should include the import reference to routes file as follows:
import '/imports/startup/client';
Or, import '/imports/startup/client/routes.js';

Answer 2

Put your route file in 'imports/starup/lib' (lib - for example). In fast-render package recommended use 'lib', if you wanna use it. If no - 'client';
Then make sure you imported your route file in 'root/client/main.js';
Please, read this part of docs: https://guide.meteor.com/structure.html#javascript-structure
It is very helpful article.
UPD:
Please, remove duplicate files in your client/main.js
When, in client/main.js
import '/imports/startup/client';
In your imports/startup/client/index.js
import './routes.js';
And now it will work.
Dont forget, you must import all views you wanna use in your route.

Answer 3

Problem fixed. Instead of launching with meteor run, need to launch with meteor --settings settings.json --production