rocketchat-flyin-packaged-app-reactjs

This is a simple Rocket.Chat Meteor plugin to demonstrate a de-coupled way to use slash commands and fly-in panels.

Rationale

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I am not a fan of Meteor.js. While I think that some of the concepts behind it are interesting, I strongly dislike how prescriptive it is and how it aims to build it's own ecosystem rather than taking the best-of-breed things that already exist in JavaScript / Node.js land.

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However, there are some interesting projects built with Meteor, like Rocket.Chat.

Rocket.Chat allows you to extend it with Meteor packages. I wanted to have a loosely coupled way to write web applications that can be embedded (client-side) into Rocket.Chat. That is to say that I wanted to essentially "deploy" a client-side web app using React.js into Rocket.Chat.

Since Meteor packages allow you to use NPM dependencies, you can simply use NPM.depends() and cosmos:browserify to load a de-coupled, pre-bundled React.js app. This repository is my best-effort at creating a Meteor package to prove out that concept.

See also (the associated pre-bundled React.js app): packaged-app-reactjs

Getting Started

Be sure you've read the instructions for contributing.

$ meteor add jeffreywescott:rocketchat-flyin-packaged-app-reactjs

You should see two things inside of your Rocket.Chat instance:

1. An additional tab bar button on the RHS with a rocket icon.
2. An additional "slash command" /flyin.

Clicking the new button or issuing the /flyin command will run the pre-bundled React.js app in a fly-in panel.

License

See the LICENSE file.