Installation

meteor npm i --save meteor-method

Usage

Create a method:

import Method from 'meteor-method';
 
export default new Method('foo', function(now) {
  return now.getDate();
});

Use the method you created:

import fooMethod from './foo';
 
fooMethod.call(new Date()).then((result) => console.log(result));
// OR, in an async/await style:
(async function() {
  console.log(await fooMethod.call(new Date()));
})();

This replaces the traditional way of creating and calling Meteor methods:

 
// Create a method
Meteor.methods({
  'foo'(now){
    return now.getDate();
  }
});
 
// Use the method
Meteor.call('foo', new Date());

This removes reliance on magic strings and enables type checking if you use TypeScript (see below).

API

Method#call: returns a Promise for the result of the callback you passed in when you created the method.

Notes for TypeScript:

This module comes with typings. Visual Studio Code supports full type inference:

import Method from 'meteor-method';
 
const fooMethod = new Method('foo', function(now: Date) {
  return now.getDate();
});
fooMethod.call(1); // Error since you are passing a number instead of a date

TypeScript currently doesn't support inference if you have 0 arguments, so this will give you an error:

import Method from 'meteor-method';
 
const fooMethod = new Method('foo', function() {
  return 1;
});
fooMethod.call(); // Error because TypeScript still thinks you should pass an argument.

Instead, use the MethodWithoutArgs class:

import {MethodWithoutArgs} from 'meteor-method';
 
const fooMethod = new MethodWithoutArgs('foo', function() {
  return 1;
});
fooMethod.call(); // All good