Mobile app backend

mobile
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hi, i’m trying to understand how a mobile app in meteor must be set up to connect to a remote meteor server.
is this explained in the documentation somewhere, because i coudn’t find it…
thanks!

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Can you be more specific? Are you trying to get a native mobile app to get data from the Meteor server via a REST API or is the mobile app going to be a Cordova Meteor client?

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excellent question!
i don’t know which approach to take - if a cordova meteor client can connect to a remote meteor server seamlessly like a web app would do (via DDP), i’d take this approach; otherwise i was thinking the backend to be a completely detached REST server as you mention.
so - the question would be can the mobile cordova meteor app connect seamlessly via DDP to a meteor server? and HOW to configure this?

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If you want to go with Cordova, there are Meteor guides that show how to do this. Communicating with the server is the exact same as the desktop.

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well, that is the question - could somebody point me to such a guide, because the couple of sites i’ve checked do not explicitly give directions for this scenario

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This one from Stephan Hochhaus is interesting too: https://www.yauh.de/the-illustrated-guide-to-mobile-apps-with-meteor/

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thank you, guys! so “meteor build --server :” was the missing step

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I didn’t remember having any problem finding this information, but you’re right about one thing, it is a ‘missing’ step, as meteor build --server isn’t mentioned in the docs.

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