I’m building a React app that I’d like to connect to an existing Meteor server. How would I go about connecting that up? Been searching for resources online everywhere and there don’t seem to be any examples of doing this, is it even possible without just copying the existing Meteor project and rep…

I recently published a new version of @socialize/react-native-meteor which includes changes to allow it to be used outside of React Native. It closely mirrors Meteor’s API and includes React Tracker integration. The following code sandbox demos the package being used to connect to Atmosphere and gr…

Wow, this is ultimately what I’ve been looking for! Thank you :smiley:

This is a good idea. I have been looking at SimpleDDP, Meteor React Native, and DDP client and they all share very similar code special the core for DDP implementation. Meteor React Native seems active and we tested so it would and I was also thinking about forking it and adapting it to any React …

[image] alawi: I have been looking at SimpleDDP, Meteor React Native, and DDP client and they all share very similar code special the core for DDP implementation. Yes, they do. @cloudspider is working on https://github.com/chris-visser/ddp which might be of interest, and progress is under way…

There are also ways to build your Meteor code in to a bundle that can be used by third party frameworks like React Native, NativeScript or maybe even something like next.js. There was even an idea floated about using Meteor to actually build some of those projects directly, rather than trying to plu…

Great, I also like the fact that we’ve different initiatives on that front, it allows us to experiment and figure out the best path forward. I think these projects are very important contribution to the Meteor ecosystem and they would open up the door for hooking up Meteor backend to the list of gr…

Thanks for the sponsorship @alawi ! :pray: I agree wholeheartedly. There’s a huge opportunity to introduce Meteor to a much wider developer audience, and making the API available for use across the broader JS ecosystem is half the battle. On top of that it also widens the options available to us as …

[image] storyteller: If you use Apollo, you can just connect to the Apollo endpoint. How does authentication happen? Can you expand on that? In Meteor, you just import and use MeteorAccountsLink and it handles the logged-in user automatically. What about in the external app?

Is It Possible to Connect a New Front End App to an Existing Meteor Server?

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storyteller August 15, 2020, 11:17am 2

There are different ways to achieve this all depending on your setup. If you use Apollo, you can just connect to the Apollo endpoint. If you want to use DDP, then you will have to use one of the DDP client libraries. Here are two that I found with a quick search on the forums: