流星部署服务器上未定义的全局模板助手

Question

I have a file with global function on my Meteor project:

client/helpers.js

console.log("INIT client helpers")

formatCurrency = function(number, currencyCode) { /* [...] */ }
formatPercentage = function(percent) { /* [...] */ }

Template.registerHelper('formatCurrency', formatCurrency)
Template.registerHelper('formatPercentage', formatPercentage)

I use direcly formatCurrency function on the client code, and Blaze view. But when I try to deploy on meteor server, I got Exception in template helper: ReferenceError: formatCurrency is not defined . Views are on /client/views/{category}/{view_name}.html, so they are loaded after helper.

On my local server, when I reload the page I got the log on browser console, but not when I hit the prod server.

Do someone know what's the difference ?

-------------[ UPDATE ]-------------

Look like the helpers file is just never called by Meteor. If I didn't use any of their function on helper, and load the page it's work. But if I try to call a function (on console), I have a undefined error, event 2sec after all the page is ready.

Answer 1

I think your load order might be around the wrong way. According to the docs: http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/structuringyourapp , the views will be loaded first because they have deeper paths (rule 4), which beats alphabetical order (rule 5).

HTML template files are always loaded before everything else
Files beginning with main. are loaded last
Files inside any lib/ directory are loaded next
Files with deeper paths are loaded next
Files are then loaded in alphabetical order of the entire path

Try putting the global helpers into a "lib" directory (rule 3), such as "client/lib/helpers.js"