Meteor 0.9 Local Package Location

Question

I noticed that somehow there is no packages folder in my newly created Meteor 0.9 project. This means that it must be using package from the ~/.meteor things. However, I cannot work like this as I am hopping between machines all day and I would like the package to stay locally; like in the project folder itself.

In the previous Meteor 0.8.3 project, I manually created packages folder in the project and when I add package it went inside there (for example i can find collectionFs inside package/ in the project directory).

I want it to be like this. How can I do this safely?

Answer 1

You can still drop packages into the top-level "packages" directory inside your project and then run meteor add like usual. These packages are just treated as app-specific packages. Here are the docs about using packages. The relevant bit is quoted here:

In addition to the packages in the official Meteor release being used by your app, meteor list and meteor add also search the packages directory at the top of your app.