load categories from settings

README.md

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ The current default “theme” is `base-components`.
 
 - ~~Comment threads~~
 - ~~Flesh out the `base-components` theme with components for the most common elements.~~
-- Add simple stylesheet to make base theme a little less ugly.
+- ~~Add simple stylesheet to make base theme a little less ugly.~~
 - Make base theme class names compatible with Vanilla Telescope?
 
 #### Forms & Methods
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ The current default “theme” is `base-components`.
 
 #### Other Stuff
 
+- ~~Create categories from code.~~
 - Newsletter.
 - Email & notifications (keep Spacebars for templates?).
 - Refactor scheduled posts to use cron job (do in `master`?)
@@ -128,7 +129,6 @@ The current default “theme” is `base-components`.
 - Autoform.
 - Votes.
 - Nested categories.
-- Create categories from code.
 - Embedly.
 - Search.
 - Meta tags.

packages/nova-tags/lib/server/load_categories.js

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+// Load categories from settings, if there are any
+
+Meteor.startup(()=>{
+
+  let count = 0;
+
+  if (Meteor.settings && Meteor.settings.categories) {
+    Meteor.settings.categories.forEach(category => {
+
+      // look for existing category with same slug
+      const existingCategory = Categories.findOne({slug: category.slug});
+      
+      if (existingCategory) {
+        // if category exists, update it with settings data
+        Categories.update(existingCategory._id, {$set: category});
+      } else {
+        // if not, create it
+        Categories.insert(category);
+        count ++;
+      }
+    });
+  }
+
+  if (count) {
+    console.log(`// Created ${count} new categories`);
+  }
+
+});

packages/nova-tags/package.js

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ Package.onUse(function (api) {
   ], ['client', 'server']);
 
   api.addFiles([
-    'lib/server/publications.js'
+    'lib/server/publications.js',
+    'lib/server/load_categories.js'
   ], ['server']);
 
   // var languages = ["ar", "bg", "cs", "da", "de", "el", "en", "es", "et", "fr", "hu", "id", "it", "ja", "kk", "ko", "nl", "pl", "pt-BR", "ro", "ru", "sl", "sv", "th", "tr", "vi", "zh-CN"];