I want to develop a usual website with Meteor.js (not one-page web app) and I want to load only specific css files for every page. So not all pages share the same css code.
Is it possible?
First off if you are using Meteor you are not building a "usual" site, you are building a very powerful SPA (single page application). You can imitate a "usual" website with introducing routing, try IronRouter.
OK now about CSS. Once you deploy Meteor all your CSS and JS are merged and minified. So if you want to achieve what you are asking you will need to add a package like this one.
https://atmospherejs.com/mrt/external-file-loader
https://github.com/davidd8/meteor-external-file-loader
Then attach it to trigger once a template is created:
Template.myCustomTemplate.created = function() {
Meteor.Loader.loadCss("//example.com/myCSS/style.css");
};
I believe you could also load the CSS from the Meteor server through Meteor's Asset API. Read more here: https://docs.meteor.com/#/full/assets
I found a simple solution. In your meteor project folder create a folder named "public" (no quotes). In that folder create a folder called "css" (no quotes). Put the CSS file in that folder.
In the html file which you want the specific CSS file to apply to do the following:
<head>
<link href="css/yourfile.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
Since the last part of your question says, "So not all pages share the same CSS code." you might consider using less and wrapping your template in a different div class.
For example
HTML file
<template name="page1">
<div class="page1css">
<p class="content">Page 1 content</p>
</div>
</template>
LESS File
.page1css {
.content {
font-size: 2em;
}
}
This way you can just wrap your pages and the corresponding css in the correct class.
Related
How to use a free bootstrap template (e.g., from startbootstrap.com) in meteor. I mean where the resources- html file, css folders and js folders of the free template should be put and what packages are needed to add/remove in meteor project file? I have tried it several times but got errors and the program crashes each time. I also transfer the script and link tags from section to section, but it did not work.
Just add the css of the template to the client of your Meteor project. Also, try using the nemo64:bootstrap package for Bootstrap. This will add some files to your project automatically, one of which will say is editable at the top. You can put your custom css in that file.
You can put the relevant html, css, and js files anywhere on the client. (Sticking it inside a folder called client will do that).
Image and font files should go in a folder called public.
You will need to make meteor templates from the HTML files. As is they will be missing any <template name="foo"> tags.
The css files can go anywhere under /client and they will automatically be added to the project. These are the easy ones.
The js files are the harder ones. If you put these under /client they will be wrapped by Meteor and will not have global scope. In all probability they won't work at all. You can put them under /public and modify your head.html file to include them to get around that problem. Odds are there won't be very many js functions in the free template anyway so you might want to read through them and see which ones you really need and then convert those to be proper template helpers or global functions on the client.
I built a custom calculator using HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery.
I have a basic hosting account and loaded all the files through cPanel to my root directory. The files include calc.html with a CSS folder holding my stylesheet and a JS folder holding my custom jQuery.
Now someone would like to put my calculator on their Wordpress site and we can not figure out how to do it. For now I just used iframe to show my site on their Wordpress page but we want the calculator to be hosted from his site.
I tried copying and pasting my HTML code from my calc.html file into a Wordpress page which works but I do not have the styling of my CSS and the JS dose not function. So I used FileZilla and created a folder called CALC with the follwing path (public_html/wp-content/themes/parallaxpro/cyberchimpscss/calc/) and added the JS sand CSS contents in there.
I linked my CSS in the header of my calc.html code
<link rel="stylesheet" href="public_html/wp-content/themes/parallaxpro/cyberchimpscss/calc/css/mainCalc.css">
I linked my JS towards the end of the body in calc.html
<script src="public_html/wp-content/themes/parallaxpro/cyberchimpscss/calc/js/main.js"></script>
I view the page and still have my ugly HTML code with no styling and no JS functionality.
Im new to Wordpress/coding and this is the first thing that popped in my mind so I tried it and failed.
I also thought I could put calc.html, mainCalc.css, and main.js inside of the calc directory i created(public_html/wp-content/themes/parallaxpro/cyberchimpscss/calc/)
and then use iframe to display calc.html on the wordpress page. I also failed at this.
I used
<iframe src="public_html/wp-content/themes/parallaxpro/cyberchimpscss/calc/calc.html"></iframe>
You could do with creating a custom page template.
Basically you will follow the docs https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-template-files/page-templates/ and create a page with the HTML + CSS + JS in the content part.
When you done, you just create a new page in the admin part, select the template from the list under the publish button. Save it, and that's it.
Its simpler from writing a plugin.
I am building a test app to learn how to organize multiple files with METEOR.
I have a head.html and inside I have the following link to my custom CSS:
<!-- Custom CSS -->
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/stylesheets/globals/style.css"/>
Very normal, Yet I have trouble to make that working.
Here is my app directory:
-app folder
---client
-----head.html
-----index.html
-----stylesheets
-------globals
---------style.css
I know it seems to be a very basic question but I can not figure it out.
Basically you have 2 ways of inserting CSS in a Meteor project :
Using the Meteor build tool to automatically concatenate and minify all your CSS files living in the client/ directory : in this case you don't need to import your stylesheets using a link tag in the head. This is perfect for vital CSS files that your app should load when started.
Example : put your CSS file under client/stylesheets/globals/style.css and that's it, no need to import it, it's automatically injected in your project by Meteor.
Using the classic way of importing stylesheets in a web application : you can put your CSS files inside the public/ directory and they will be served by your app server. In this case the Meteor build process will be skipped so files won't be concatenated together nor minified. Use this method when you want to lazy load big CSS files only needed in a subpart of your app (for example admin section styling).
Example : put your minified CSS file under public/stylesheets/admin/style.css, and use something like iron:router to load the CSS file when hitting the admin route.
Router.route("/admin", {
// onRun hooks executed only once
onRun: function(){
// create a link taf holding a reference to our publicly served CSS file
var link=$("<link>",{
rel: "stylesheet",
href: "/stylesheets/admin/style.css"
});
// append to the head tag
$("head").append(link);
}
});
I'm trying to use CKEditor in a meteor application:
My attemps:
Put CKEditor folder with all the files (js, css, lang, plugins and skins) in the public folder, include the reference to the javascript file (ckeditor.js) in the header and use the appropiate class in textarea elements. Failed because the editor only works if the textarea is in the body (in any template the textarea control remains unmodified).
Put the javascript files (ckeditor.js, config.js, styles.js) in client/lib/compatibility folder and the remaining files in the public folder. This time the application cant locate the files (skins, plugins, ...) because is looking for localhost:3000/client/lib/compatibility/ckeditor/ ...
Has anybody make this integration works before?
I got this working and wanted to post a solution for future visitors. First, you need to put everything from the CKEDITOR build download in the public folder. CKEDITOR comes with all sorts of stuff and references everything based on relative directories.
Your public folder should have a directory named ckeditor it should contain contain the following files and folders:
adapters
lang
plugins
skins
ckeditor.js
config.js
contents.css
styles.js
In your primary layout file reference CKEDITOR like so:
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/ckeditor/adapters/jquery.js"></script>
</head>
In your template:
<template name="yourTemplate">
<textarea id="content" name="content"></textarea>
</template>
Finally, in the rendered function of your template:
Template.yourTemplate.rendered = function() {
$('#content').ckeditor();
};
Normally, you would say this.$('#content').ckeditor() but that doesn't work because CKEDITOR is in your public folder. As a result, you need to the global reference to the #content element.
Put only the CKEditor files that you would've included in <head> inside a folder in client/lib, i.e. client/lib/ckeditor. That's all you need to do to get them served to the client: there's no need to reference anything in any <head> or anything like that. All .js and .css files that Meteor finds inside client are automatically concatenated and served to the client. This applies to any client-side library, not just CKEditor.
The next thing you need to do is cause CKEditor to be initialized on the pages that use it. Say you have a template called edit with a textarea with an ID of editor. And say you're also loading the CKEditor jQuery Adapter. Inside a JavaScript file within client, put:
Template.edit.rendered = function() {
$('#editor').ckeditor();
}
The key here is that the initialization happens after the textarea editor exists and is ready, because this code is executed after the edit template is fully rendered. It will be reexecuted anytime edit is rerendered. Any other client-side library is included and initialized similarly.
EDIT Image files referenced via .css are a pain in Meteor. The "proper" way to deal with them is to put them all under the folder public, in this case for example public/ckeditor. Then edit the CKEditor .css files so that all references to image URLs point to your new folder at the root, i.e. /ckeditor/image1.png etc. (leave out "public").
I have this:
bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/Styles/Default").Include("~/Content/Styles/Default/Site.css"));
On my sites i have this:
#section Styles
{
#Styles.Render("~/Content/Styles/Default"))
}
My _Layout.cshtml looks like this:
#RenderSection("Styles", true)
Everything looks good, eh? Well, not really. When i compiled my application in release mode, decided to publish it, this is what it renders:
<link href="/Content/Styles/Default?v=78dkNySP_xsiuzsgxCx_GGnnHzYS-B8nNdnXqcl47XI1" rel="stylesheet">
Instead of generating href to a file, it generates some kind of id? Guid? Why? O.o
This is how bundles work. It's main purpose is for you to combine multiple CSS (and JS files for that matter) files into one package. e.g. you no longer have to put all your css (and js) into one huge file. Just split it up into sections, then add it into your bundles, and it packages it up into one item. Less web requests, the faster your page load time.
e.g. Lets say you had 2 css files. One's the main, but you had one for your menu system.
bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/Styles/Default").Include(
"~/Content/Styles/Default/Site.css",
"~/Content/Styles/Default/Menu.css"));
This would show up as a single call with the GUID type code (to prevent caching on file changes) on the URL. This URL will link to a minified and bundled css.
But my browser cannot read that! There is no physical path to a file!
It's a sort of virtual file. MVC's bundling uses the routing engine to point it to a combined and minified version of a particle bundle.