Spiderable and Iron-Router example - meteor

Question

Does someone uses Iron-Router and Spiderable-404?
Please I need some complete examples to show me how to add the metatags.
They say this:
if (Meteor.isClient) {
Meteor.Router.add({
'/': 'index',
'/a': 'a',
'/b': function() {
Spiderable.httpHeaders['X-Foo'] = 'bar';
return 'b';
},
'*': function() {
Spiderable.httpStatusCode = 404;
return 'notFound';
}
});
}
but this does not work in iron router and there is no meta tag in this poor example, or I could not make it work, please help me fill the blanks.

Answer 1

The spiderable package is just a package you install and forget in Meteor. You do not use it directly from within your app.
Meteor SEO is not very mature, but you have options to get basic SEO working. Especially when you are using iron-router, there is the ms-seo smart package that you can use as:
$ mrt add ms-seo
and then in your router configuration:
Router.map(function() {
return this.route('blogPost', {
path: '/blog/:slug',
waitOn: function() {
return [Meteor.subscribe('postFull', this.params.slug)];
},
data: function() {
var post;
post = Posts.findOne({
slug: this.params.slug
});
return {
post: post
};
},
onAfterAction: function() {
var post;
// The SEO object is only available on the client.
// Return if you define your routes on the server, too.
if (!Meteor.isClient) {
return;
}
post = this.data().post;
SEO.set({
title: post.title,
meta: {
'description': post.description
},
og: {
'title': post.title,
'description': post.description
}
});
}
});
});
Also for 404 responses, iron-router's standard notFoundTemplate already provides the HTTP status code out of box. For other status codes, you need to define server side routes
````
Router.map(function () {
this.route('serverFile', {
where: 'server',
path: '/files/:filename',
action: function () {
var filename = this.params.filename;
this.response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
this.response.end('hello from server');
}
});
});
````
PS: You may want to refer to this blog post, and this one for further reading.
PPS: Your router configuration looks generally wrong. Your code looks like it belongs to the outdated meteor-router package. Refer to the iron-router package docs for more information.