Meteor Settings or Environment Variables?

ccorcos · July 20, 2015, 6:50am

Which should I use? Environment variables or settings.json. I don’t want to use both.

jasoncchild · July 20, 2015, 6:56am

relevant;opinionated

if you Dockerize I don’t see the issue with env

tomfreudenberg · July 20, 2015, 11:16am

Hi, we prefer also a well defined set of YAML setting files. You may have look on that package – looking forward to your feedback. If you prefer JSON files, you can also use those with the above package.

https://atmospherejs.com/4commerce/env-settings

https://atmospherejs.com/4commerce/meteor-namespace-template-helper

ccorcos · July 27, 2015, 5:18pm

Hmm. You only get the configs after Meteor.startup? Thats not very nice. It looks like this is a very similar approach to Meteor.settings though right?

tomfreudenberg · July 27, 2015, 5:40pm

Hi, the settings are loaded through Package meteor on a very early stage during bootstrap.

github.com

meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/meteor/server_environment.js

meteorEnv = {
  NODE_ENV: process.env.NODE_ENV || "production",
  TEST_METADATA: process.env.TEST_METADATA || "{}"
};

if (typeof __meteor_runtime_config__ === "object") {
  __meteor_runtime_config__.meteorEnv = meteorEnv;
}

Meteor = {
  isProduction: meteorEnv.NODE_ENV === "production",
  isDevelopment: meteorEnv.NODE_ENV !== "production",
  isClient: false,
  isServer: true,
  isCordova: false
};

Meteor.settings = {};

if (process.env.METEOR_SETTINGS) {

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Normally this is the first package which is loaded and is implied by meteor-platform. This package exports the Meteor var also.

tomfreudenberg · July 27, 2015, 5:50pm

@ccorcos - … or did you reflect your question to our package (env-settings) ?