Meteor.js

1. Meteor.js
Plan for Deployment to Production

2. CLI
• Node.js/NPM
• Meteorite/Atmosphere > GitHub
• Meteor > Native Packages
• Cordova > Apache/3rd Party Plugins with Plugman
• Eclipse IDE > Android SDK & Terminal plugin
• Xcode IDE
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3. Discussion Points
• Development vs Production
• Automated Deployment
• Hosts
• Scaling
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4. Dev vs Prod
• New Meteor project is open and insecure.
• Includes autopublish and insecure packages.
• > meteor remove autopublish insecure
• Add accounts-ui, et. al, for identity & access
management:
o Subscribe > Publish collections.
o Meteor.call > Meteor.methods.
o HTTP.call to Rest APIs.
o oAuth connections to user data.
o DDP.connect from other Meteor clients.
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5. Deployment
• Node.js app
• meteor bundle --directory test
• Add env. Variables:
o MONGO_URL,
o ROOT_URL,
o Port (optional, defaults to 80),
o MONGO_OPLOG_URL (if required)
o METEOR_SETTINGS (if required).
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6. Hosts
• Meteor.com > meteor deploy <sitename>
--password --settings
• Modulus.io > modulus deploy (detects meteor and runs
demeteorizer)
• AWS > DYI with Bitnami AMI, Other AMI?
• MS Azure ???
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7. Scaling
MongoDB
o Built-in for DEV
o Built-in for Modulus
o MongoLab, MongoHQ
o Oplog tailing > Watch log of latest changes.
o Replica set cluster with auto failover.
Server
o Load Balancing
o Distribution
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8. Package Freeze
• Make a plan to freeze a copy of the Meteorite packages
used.
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9. Links
• http://docs.meteor.com/#meteordeploy
• http://www.modulus.io
• http://blog.modulus.io/demeteorizer
• http://www.monglab.com
• http://aws.amazon.com/
• https://bitnami.com/stack/nodejs/cloud/azure
• http://vmdepot.msopentech.com/Vhd/Show?vhdId=4251
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