ReferenceError: check is not defined

Meteor version: v1.3

I was following the tutorial on the meter website found here:

https://www.meteor.com/tutorials/blaze/security-with-methods

In the tutorial they recommend checking user input using a command as follows:

check(text, String);

However, when I go to run the application, I got the error message:

Exception while invoking method 'tasks.remove' ReferenceError: check is not defined

 No where in the tutorial did it mention that you had to add the 'check' package. So running the following command solved the problem:

meteor add check

Meteor - TypeError: Cannot call method 'config' of undefined

Following the instructions on the meteor.js tutorial site:

https://www.meteor.com/tutorials/blaze/adding-user-accounts

I ran into the following error:

TypeError: Cannot call method 'config' of undefined

 There was an import statement that I had to add to a main.js file

import '../imports/startup/accounts-config.js';

It turns out I had added the  import line into the wrong 'main.js' file.
There are 2 main.js files: One in the client folder and the other in the server folder.


Once I moved the import statement to the client version, the app started working again

'npm' is not a Meteor command

I had previously installed Meteor months ago with the intention of giving it a go, but never got around to it. Fast forward to today, I tried to reinstall Meteor using the latest installer for version 1.3. Then I proceeded to follow the tutorials where one step required me enter the command:

meteor npm install

I received the following error:

'npm' is not a Meteor command. See 'meteor --help'.

It turns out that my version of Meteor was not actually updated by the installer. To check my meteor version I used the following command:

meteor --version

Which showed me "Meteor 1.2.0.2".

Solution

To upgrade meteor, run the following command:

meteor update

Reference: https://forums.meteor.com/t/installing-meteor-1-3-with-an-existing-1-2-left-in-place/20670