CoffeeScript/ Usage with meteord

[zimt28]

Hey there,
I'm thinking about moving my Meteor app over to webpack, and this seems to be a nice solution.
I have two questions.

First, can I easily use this with meteord? I think I could just run prod.js and then create my image, right?

Second, I'm a CoffeeScript user. I'd like to have all the scripts in / to be .coffee files, but I think I'd have to compile them to .js anyway, so I'd just end up with more files. Do you think there's a better solution for me or should I just keep all the files right there in JavaScript, which would also make updates from this repo easier?

[AdamBrodzinski]

@zimt28 Docker should work fine if you modify the docker image. Webpack builds different than meteor build so at the least you would need to change build_app.sh so that it runs the webpack build script.

You should also be able to build a tarball locally and then build the app and upload it to S3:
https://github.com/meteorhacks/meteord#21-from-the-web

If you really don't like the coffee files you would need to compile them, doubling the files. I think dealing with JS will be easier IMHO.

[zimt28]

@AdamBrodzinski thanks for your response.
I thought that after running prod.js I would end up with a fully functional meteor app inside of meteor-core, which I could then convert into an image having my Dockerfile inside meteor-core as well. Wouldn't this work?

About CoffeeScript, I've never used it outside of Meteor, so I didn't know about the coffee command-line tool. This solves my problem as I actually prefer CoffeeScript syntax and want to have things consistent.