Hi,
Last week, I’ve made some changes and make it possible to install and use Meteor Up on windows.
If you haven’t know about Meteor Up, it’s a self deployment tool for Meteor where you can deploy your Meteor app into a Ubuntu server.
See:
Installation
First install NodeJS in your windows machine.
Then install Meteor Up with npm i -g mup
For more information check Meteor Up docs: https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up
Windows Port Tech
If you wan’t to know about how I’ve added windows support to Meteor Up. Here is it.
Meteor Up uses SSH to communicate with the server. Linux and Mac has built in SSH clients. Meteor UP uses them. But, windows does not comes with a built in SSH client. So, it prevents Meteor Up being working on Windows.
But, there is a nice project called ssh2 which is a pure javascript implementation of SSH. So, I’ve used it instead of using OS level SSH clients. It worked pretty well and I could even speed up the SSH communication process. It also lead to implement cool features like progress bars while uploading the meteor bundle to server.
I also had to remove the use of some bash scripts and re-write them pure javascript.
So, that’s the story behind the port and it was an easy task than I expected.
