meteor-client-side

Use Meteor's client side DDP protocol and Minimongo in a non Meteor project.

Installation

bower install meteor-client-side

Usage

1. Set DDP connection url:

   • Load the script <script src="meteor-runtime-config.js"></script> (Sets the url to http://localhost:3000).

   Or

   • Set __meteor_runtime_config__.DDP_DEFAULT_CONNECTION_URL global variable with the desired url.

2. Load the meteor-client-side code: <script src="dist/meteor-client-side.bundle.min.js"></script>

Examples:

• ionic-whatsapp
• ionic-chat
• angular-socially

Packages:

• accounts-password
• accounts-phone
• accounts-base

What I've done

I wanted to be able to use meteor's DDP protocol and Minimongo without the process of change my current project infrastructure and architecture.

In order to make it possible I looked at Meteor's code and try figure out how to set the DDP connection url outside of a Meteor project. I found that __meteor_runtime_config__.DDP_DEFAULT_CONNECTION_URL runtime variable need to be set and then it left me with the need to extract meteor code to external use. It was realy simple :)

I run meteor build --directory and got the minified version meteor-client-side.min.js

In addition, I wanted to use Meteor Accounts packages so I extracted it too accounts-password-client-side