Meteor package, how to add static files

Question

I'm creating a package and, for the client side, I need to add some static files like fonts and images. After trying some outdated solution I found nothing seemed to work for me. How should I add those files? Create a public folder inside my package? Adding the files with api.addFiles? Is this even possible?

Answer 1

update: meteor 1.2

You should now use api.addAssets to add static files to your package.

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original answer

You can add static assets to any package and they will be served by meteor. The easiest way to demonstrate this is with an example. Have a look at the source for hopscotch.

The package contains an img directory with the file sprite-green-0.3.png. If you look at the package.js file you can see that it gets added to the client with:

api.addFiles('img/sprite-green-0.3.png', 'client');

After adding the package to your project, you can access the file directly with this URL:

http://localhost:3000/packages/hopscotch/img/sprite-green-0.3.png

In summary, you can use api.addFiles to add static assets. All assets will be accessable under a path like /packages/[package name]/[path to asset].

Note that you can add {isAsset: true} as a third argument to addFiles for assets which should not be automatically loaded. This post contains an example of its use.