Ad Generator Meteor

Ad Generator generates .html Ad page from .html Template and Excel Data e.g. .xls. Generated Ad can be used e.g, in iframe.

Screenshot

Example

This example demostrates idea of the Ad Generator.

Setup

Ad Generator is written in Meteor. First you need to have install meteor for your OS.

• clone repo

npm install

Set Paths

If you want to store your files on FS, you have to configure paths where your templates, excel data and generated ads will be stored. Create new json file settings-development.json in the root directory and copy this content or settings-example.json into it.

{
  "private": {
    "adTemplatesPath": "path to templates",
    "adDataPath": "path to excel files",
    "generatedAdsPath": "path to generated ads"
  },
  "lagConfig": {
    "base": {
      "defaultDelay": 0
    }
  }
}

I recommend to use absolute path e.g. Users/<username>/ad-generator-files/templates
If you want to store your files in a Cloud ,check the meteor package how to do it Meteor-Files

lagConfig is configuration of meteor packages alon:lag-methods and alon:lag-publications where you can simulate response delay from server in development mode. If you don't put this config in settings-development.json, default delay will be 1000ms

Run App

npm start

If you want to simulate production on your machine (minified,concat ..)

npm run sim-production

Deployment

I recommend deploying Ad-Generator with meteor-up. Because meteor-up uses docker, it is very import to set volume path from docker container to the host machine (your server)to able to see uploaded files on FS of the server. That will be done in config file mup.js , that will be created after run mup init. Also you have to set probably docker image to abernix/meteord:base but dont forget to check if docker is installed on your server. Here is my example of this config file used on ubuntu

module.exports = {
  servers: {
    one: {
      host: 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx',
      username: '<username>',
      // pem:
      password: '*****'
      // or leave blank for authenticate from ssh-agent
    }
  },

  meteor: {
    name: 'ad-generator',
    path: 'path to ad-generator',
    volumes: {
     // "/host/path": "/container/path"
     'home/<username>/ad-generator-files': 'home/<username>/ad-generator-files'
    },
    docker:{
     image: 'abernix/meteord:base'
    },
    servers: {
      one: {}
    },
    buildOptions: {
      serverOnly: true,
      debug: true
    },
    env: {
      ROOT_URL: 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx',
      MONGO_URL: 'mongodb://localhost/meteor'
    },
    deployCheckWaitTime: 60
  },

  mongo: {
    oplog: true,
    port: 27017,
    servers: {
      one: {},
    },
  },
};