How to create the perfect Meteor development environment?

lcpubs · January 15, 2016, 1:32pm

Hi, I’m new to meteor and like to know how we can setup the perfect development environment for meteor. I use Linux and now need to run multiple meteor versions. Also like it’s better if I can sync the dbs or let other machines in the office connect to one db. Any suggestions? Thanks

hwillson · January 15, 2016, 3:29pm

A few quick notes:

You can run your app with any previous meteor version by using meteor --release SOME_VERSION_NUMBER
You can choose the port meteor runs on using meteor --post SOME_PORT (so using this combined with the above point will let you run multiple meteor versions/apps at the same time)
You can get the Mongo URL for your running app at any point by running meteor mongo -U; with this you can then connect other meteor apps to the same mongo DB by using the MONGO_URL environment variable: export MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:123456/some_db

lcpubs · January 16, 2016, 1:12am

Great! By the way… How to install multiple meteor versions and set a default to run when we call meteor create?

maxhodges · January 16, 2016, 2:34pm

WebStorm is great for this. You can setup configurations for your project with the database connection. These configurations can also be shared with other team members. WebStorm is a dream for Meteor dev.