What Happens: meteor with express? 2 Servers?

camacazze · May 17, 2018, 6:30am

As in the Apollo Integration with meteor, or otherwise, when we run Express.js with Meteor; what happens conceptually?

Are two web servers running in ‘dev’ or ‘production’, on two different ports/domains??

Isn’t express.js already a part of Meteor?

So if Apollo Server runs on Express, are there two different servers talking to the database (MongoDB)?

Why doesn’t Apollo server run on Meteor Server? Is it incompatible?

I think this is a conceptual question.

Many Thanks in advance!

coagmano · May 17, 2018, 8:36am

Meteor’s Apollo package and express use the same http server that Meteor does under the hood (Express is just a framework for middleware after all).

It’s all the same server on the same ports

You can see the lot being mounted on Meteor’s WebApp pacakge here:

github.com

apollographql/meteor-integration/blob/master/src/main-server.js#L124


    config.graphiqlPath,
    graphiqlExpress({
      // GraphiQL options
      ...config.graphiqlOptions,
      // endpoint of the graphql server where to send requests
      endpointURL: config.path,
    })
  );
}
// this binds the specified paths to the Express server running Apollo + GraphiQL
WebApp.connectHandlers.use(graphQLServer);
};


export const getUserForContext = async loginToken => {
// there is a possible current user connected!
if (loginToken) {
  // throw an error if the token is not a string
  check(loginToken, String);


  // the hashed token is the key to find the possible current user in the db
  const hashedToken = Accounts._hashLoginToken(loginToken);