This document outlines a plan for deploying a Meteor.js application to production. It discusses removing insecure packages, adding authentication packages, bundling the app, setting environment variables, hosting options like Meteor.com, Modulus.io, AWS, and Azure, scaling MongoDB and servers with load balancing, and freezing Meteorite packages.

1. Meteor.js
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2. CLI
• Node.js/NPM
• Meteorite/Atmosphere > GitHub
• Meteor > Native Packages
• Cordova > Apache/3rd Party Plugins with Plugman
• Eclipse IDE > Android SDK & Terminal plugin
• Xcode IDE
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3. Discussion Points
• Development vs Production
• Automated Deployment
• Hosts
• Scaling
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4. Dev vs Prod
• New Meteor project is open and insecure.
• Includes autopublish and insecure packages.
• > meteor remove autopublish insecure
• Add accounts-ui, et. al, for identity & access
management:
o Subscribe > Publish collections.
o Meteor.call > Meteor.methods.
o HTTP.call to Rest APIs.
o oAuth connections to user data.
o DDP.connect from other Meteor clients.
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5. Deployment
• Node.js app
• meteor bundle --directory test
• Add env. Variables:
o MONGO_URL,
o ROOT_URL,
o Port (optional, defaults to 80),
o MONGO_OPLOG_URL (if required)
o METEOR_SETTINGS (if required).
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6. Hosts
• Meteor.com > meteor deploy <sitename>
--password --settings
• Modulus.io > modulus deploy (detects meteor and runs
demeteorizer)
• AWS > DYI with Bitnami AMI, Other AMI?
• MS Azure ???
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7. Scaling
MongoDB
o Built-in for DEV
o Built-in for Modulus
o MongoLab, MongoHQ
o Oplog tailing > Watch log of latest changes.
o Replica set cluster with auto failover.
Server
o Load Balancing
o Distribution
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8. Package Freeze
• Make a plan to freeze a copy of the Meteorite packages
used.
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9. Links
• http://docs.meteor.com/#meteordeploy
• http://www.modulus.io
• http://blog.modulus.io/demeteorizer
• http://www.monglab.com
• http://aws.amazon.com/
• https://bitnami.com/stack/nodejs/cloud/azure
• http://vmdepot.msopentech.com/Vhd/Show?vhdId=4251
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