Where are meteor's installed packages located?

Question

I installed twitter bootstrap using meteor add bootstrap. I want to look at the bootstrap css files, but I can't find them anywhere.

I have looked in my application folder, and I've looked at many folders in the .meteor folder. In app-name/.meteor/local/build/programs/server/packages I came across bootstrap.min.js, but no bootstrap.min.css anywhere.

There's nothing in my app-name/.meteor/local/build/programs/client/packages folder.

Does anybody know where the bootstrap css file(s) is located?

Edit: I looked in my generated html page, and found <link href="/c06ffbf557927aa81d97be1421cb5a36cd8fd88f.css" rel="stylesheet"></link>

I found that file in app-name/.meteor/local/build/programs/client/c06ffbf557927aa81d97be1421cb5a36cd8fd88f.css. It is bootstrap, but why is it called that random string, and not bootstrap.css? Is this a bootstrap only problem, or do other packages have this too?

Blacksmith

The local build files are the minified versions. See my answer below :) – Cylindroid

Answer 1

Typically they are in your home folder in the .meteor directory:

/home/username/.meteor/packages.  

If you are usining meteorite packages as well, they find their way to

/home/username/.meteorite/packages.  

They are symlinked into individual projects with the 'meteor add' action to avoid having to have a version of every package installed for every project you run.

Cylindroid

When I go into /home/username/.meteor/packages, I can see folders with all the packages I installed but these folders don't seem to include the code of the packages. Just some metadata. Do you know where I can find the code of the packages? Thanks! – Westney

For Foundation 6, I found code at /home/user/.meteor/packages/zurb_foundation-sites/6.1.2/web.browser/dist/foundation.js – Alow

The file structure is a bit of a moving target and varies by Meteor version. Since the 1.0 it has seemed pretty stable. – Cylindroid

Answer 2

For Windows it's at

C:\Users\[YourUser]\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\

Secretarial

Answer 3

For mac users they are located in:

User/.meteor/packages

Via Terminal:

cd ~/.meteor/packages

Via Finder, press CMD + Shift + G and enter:

~/.meteor/packages

I also wrote about it here: https://medium.com/@geneparcellano/where-are-meteor-js-packages-installed-f9e123e67f76#.8rgrd8nwj

Aforethought