One of the things I absolutely loved when I started with Meteor a few years back was the ability to deploy a live demo app with just a few keystrokes.
As I understand these demo sites were shut down and the service stopped sometime last year. I understand there was likely a cost decision behind it, but does anyone have the whole story? Is anything like this going to make a comeback?
I just had a scenario where this would have been a perfect solution for sending a quick live example to another individual so was curious as to if weāll get to see something like that again for Meteor.
Yeah, itās been about a year since the free hosting stopped. I donāt expect to see anything from MDG in a similar vein, but you can check out https://zeit.co/now#, which has been getting some positive feedback from users here.
Whatās the purpose behind using another abstraction library versus just using using https://zeit.co/now? Is any special configuration needed for a meteor project as compared to just a āregularā node app?
You can read about the package motivation in this blog post.. But my understanding is that they wanted to keep it as simple as possible, deploying with one command, and I think they package a mongo db instance within the container.
Iāve used meteor-now to deploy to zeit and it works great but I didnāt attempt a manual deployment so I canāt tell if there are differences when compared to deploying a āregularā node app. Hopefully the package creators can elaborate more.
@orbyt there are a few steps you need to take before you can deploy a meteor app to now. Mainly bundling the app and configuring an appropriate Dockerfile. We handled all of this using the meteor-now command. In addition as @alawi mentioned, if you donāt pass a MONGO_URL, meteor-now will bundle a local MongoDB instance with your Docker container. This allows you to easily deploy free meteor apps similar to meteor deploy.