ntancardoso/micropost

meteor demo application

Micropost

A simple meteor application demo

View live demo on https://micropost.view-this.info

Test

  meteor test --driver-package practicalmeteor:mocha

Deployment

Run locally

• Dependencies: node, meteor

1. Install the packages

  npm install

2. Run the meteor application

  meteor

Run on server

• Dependencies: node, meteor, mongo

1. Build the meteor application. This will output a file named micropost.tar.gz. You may change the output path.

meteor build --architecture=os.linux.x86_64 .

2. Extract the output file micropost.tar.gz. It will extract a directory called bundle

  tar -zxvf micropost.tar.gz

3. Go to the bundle's server directory

  cd /bundle/programs/server

4. Install the packages

  npm install

5. Setup Environment variables for meteor. Check Meteor Docs

    MONGO_URL='mongodb://<mongo_host>/<app>'
    ROOT_URL='http://localhost'
    PORT='80'
    ...

6. Run the application

  node /bundle/main.js

Run on Docker

• Dependencies: node, meteor, docker

1. Build the meteor application. This will output a file named micropost.tar.gz

  meteor build --architecture=os.linux.x86_64 .

2. Extract the output file micropost.tar.gz. It will extract a directory called bundle

  tar -zxvf micropost.tar.gz

3. Update docker-compose.yml with the your volume paths and environment variables.
4. Run the container

  docker-compose up