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• About Meteor-Files package
• API
• Examples
• Demos
• Related packages

About:

Meteor-Files library features and highlights

• Event-driven API
• TypeScript Definitions
• Upload / Read files in Cordova app: Cordova support (Any with support of FileReader)
• File upload:
  • Upload via HTTP or DDP, read about difference
  • Ready for small and large files (optimized RAM usage)
  • Pause / Resume upload
  • Auto-pause when connection to server is interrupted
  • Parallel multi-stream async upload (faster than ever)
  • Support of non-Latin (non-Roman) file names
• Use third-party storage:
  • AWS S3 Bucket Integration
  • DropBox Integration
  • GridFS using GridFSBucket
  • GridFS using gridfs-stream (legacy)
  • Google Drive
  • Google Cloud Storage Integration
  • any other with JS/REST API
• Get upload speed
• Get remaining upload time
• Serving files (download):
  • Custom download route
  • Download compatible with small and large files, including progressive (chunked) download
  • Correct mime-type and Content-Range headers
  • Correct 206 and 416 responses
  • Following RFC 2616
  • Control access to files
  • Files CRC check (integrity check)
  • Serve public files with a server like nginx
• Write to file system (fs.):
  • Automatically writes files on FS and special Collection
  • path, collection name, schema, chunk size and naming function is under your control
  • Support for file subversions, like thumbnails, audio/video file formats, revisions, and etc.
• Store wherever you like:
  • You may use Meteor-Files as temporary storage
  • After file is uploaded and stored on FS you able to mv or cp its content, see 3rd-party storage integration examples
• Subscribe on files (collections) you need

API:

• FilesCollection Constructor [Isomorphic]
• insert() [Client] - Upload file(s) from client to server
  • FileUpload#pipe()
• write() [Server] - Write Buffer to FS and FilesCollection
• load() [Server] - Write file to FS and FilesCollection from remote URL
• addFile() [Server] - Add local file to FilesCollection from FS
• findOne() [Isomorphic] - Find one file in FilesCollection; Returns FileCursor
• find() [Isomorphic] - Create cursor for FilesCollection; Returns File__s__Cursor
• remove() [Isomorphic] - Remove files from FilesCollection and "unlink" (e.g. remove) from FS
• unlink() [Server] - "Unlink" (e.g. remove) file from FS
• link() [Isomorphic] - Generate downloadable link
• collection [Isomorphic] - Meteor.Collection instance
• Template helper fileURL [Client] - Generate downloadable link in a template
• Initialize FilesCollection
  • SimpleSchema Integration
  • Collection deny rules
  • Collection allow rules
  • Control upload access
  • Control remove access
  • Custom response headers for CORS or anything else
• FileCursor Class - Instance of this class is returned from .findOne() method
  • remove(callback) - {undefined} - Remove document
  • link() - {String} - Returns downloadable URL to File
  • get(property) - {Object|mix} - Returns current document as a plain Object
  • fetch() - {[Object]}- Returns current document as plain Object in Array
  • with() - {FileCursor} - Returns reactive version of current FileCursor
• FilesCursor Class - Instance of this class is returned from .find() method
  • fetch() - {[Object]} - Returns all matching document(s) as an Array
  • count() - {Number} - Returns the number of documents that match a query
  • remove(callback) - {undefined} - Removes all documents that match a query
  • forEach(callback, context) - {undefined} - Call callback once for each matching document
  • each() - {[FileCursor]} - Returns an Array of FileCursor made for each document on current Cursor
  • observe(callbacks) - {Object} - Functions to call to deliver the result set as it changes
  • observeChanges(callbacks) - {Object} - Watch a query. Receive callbacks as the result set changes
  • See all methods
• Default Collection Schema
  • Attach SimpleSchema and Collection2
  • Extend Schema
  • Override Schema

Demos:

• Simplest upload app
• Simplest streaming app
• Simplest download button
• Fully-featured file sharing app — live: files.veliov.com

Examples:

• docs Third-party storage (AWS S3, DropBox, GridFS and Google Storage)
• code-sample File subversions - Create video file with preview and multiple formats
• code-sample repo cURL/POST upload by @noris666
• tutorial MUP/Docker Persistent Storage - Deploy via MeteorUp to Docker container with persistent storagePath
• tutorial React.js usage - React with a progress bar and component with links to view, re-name, and delete the files
• tutorial Migrating from CollectionFS/CFS - Live conversion from the depreciated CFS to Meteor-Files (Amazon S3 specifically, but applies to all)
• tutorial Getting FilesCollection instance - Retrieve the FilesCollection by it's underlying Mongo.Collection instance
• tutorial Migrating / moving GridFS stored files - Three step way of moving/copying/syncing GridFS-stored files between multiple Meteor applications
• tutorial GridFS streaming - Implement 206 partial content response
• Post-processing:
  • tutorial Create Thumbnails
  • tutorial Image post-processing using AWS Lambda
  • code-sample Resize, create thumbnail

Related packages:

• pyfiles (meteor-python-files) Python Client for Meteor-Files package
• meteor-autoform-file - Upload and manage files with autoForm