How do I structure a Meteor project with external scripts?

I am wondering if anyone has developed a best practice for organizing Meteor applications containing external shell scripts, or other internal processes that take place outside of the node.js server code and client side js code.

For example, I have a meteor application that is structured like this:

project-name
  client
  lib
  models
  packages
  public
  server

      

I have a shell script that handles some external data sources and a Python script that does some other heavy lifting. It all helps by inserting new data into the Mongo instance. Yes, I know there is a bit of a mess, but also system data. My question is, should I put these projects in the meteorites app folder or should they live outside of the system? Just curious how others structure such applications.

Option number 1

project-name
  client
  ...
  server
    data-processor.sh
    other-utility.py

      

Option number 2

project-name
  client
  ...
  private
    data-processor.sh
    other-utility.py

      

Option number 3

bin
  data-processor.sh
  other-utility.py
meteor-project-name
  client
  ...
  private

      

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You shouldn't put any non-meteor files in your meteor project directory, all of them can be captured by some package even if the standard packages meteor-platform

don't recognize the extension. Thus, placing them in /server

may cause problems in the future. A folder /private

, on the other hand, is for the resources your application uses, so placing scripts there is inelegant and inelegant.



To avoid moving these scripts outside the project folder, you can store them in a hidden directory, which is any directory with a name starting with a period, i.e. /.scripts

... Files placed there will not be received by Meteor.

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