Run the meteor server on an external node express/socket server

arthyficiel · July 13, 2018, 6:35pm

Hi everyone,

First I would like to say I’m a hudge fan of Meteor projet ! I’m using it everywhere, it’s awesome.
But I have a big project on Meteor and I have to update it on a full API (REST/Socket) using node (with no html results).

The real question: What’s the best way to build an API with Express and Socket.io who can act as Meteor.server for a Meteor project on a different server AND domain name ?

Do something already exist that I did not found ?

The concept

The user concact interface-server.com (with meteor) and receive the bundle
Meteor.call() and Meteor.subscribe() are redirected on client to api-server.com as with http/socket classics requests to the node API
- In the best world, the meteor.server on interface-server.com should not be involved here (who are used only to download the client bundle), only the user and the node server are talking
Node server know he’s talking with a Meteor app and reply like a Meteor server with publications.

I was thinking about create 2 npm module, one for the node server and another one to the client to help implementation on future projects.

I’m open for every idea, existing projects…

Thank you all

cloudspider · July 13, 2018, 11:02pm

Yoy might want to try this ddp server package from Q42:

github.com

Q42/DDP-Server-Reactive/blob/master/README.md

## DDP Server with reactive collections

DDP-Server-Reactive is a nodejs based DDP Server.

### Usage

```
// Create a server listening on the default port 3000
var server = new DDPServer();

// Create a reactive collection
// All the changes below will automatically be sent to subscribers
var todoList = server.publish("todolist");

// Add items
todoList[0] = { title: "Cook dinner", done: false };
todoList[1] = { title: "Water the plants", done: true };

// Change items
todoList[0].done = true;

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arthyficiel · July 16, 2018, 4:49pm

Humm… Look very nice ! I didn’t know Meteor create a DDP protocol, it’s very nice.

Just as informations, does meteor core use this package ? Or it’s hardcoded ? (to ref the same package and get the best compatibility in the future)

arthyficiel · July 16, 2018, 5:13pm

I also saw this project: https://github.com/Streemo/react-ddp

So if I implement on my API the Rest/Socket/DDP servers I can also create a client-side lib who can connect to the 3 ?
Look awesome