Build tools for MeteorJS applications

Isobuild is an in-built build tool for MeteorJS. Another popular build tool is demeteorizer, which again is built on the top of Isobuild.

Isobuild

MeteorJS offers a simple build tool called Isobuild. It converts a single source into a set of runnable programs with respect to the target platforms (Android/iOS/Web). If you are developing a cross-platform application using MeteorJS, then this build process can create builds in accordance with the mobile platforms as well, if added in the application. When you create a MeteorJS application, Isobuild is added to the application. Isobuild will build the source when the following commands are run:

meteor run
meteor deploy
meteor build

Isobuild can include the NPM package and the PhoneGap package based on the target platform. It has its own package format called Isopack, which we can see inside the .meteor/local directory.

During a build process, Isobuild does transpiling, minifying, generating source maps, resolving...