Meteor Remote DDP

When building an app with decoupled client-code and server-code (say a mobile version of an existing app), your client connects via DDP to its own server by default.

This package allows you to specify a remote DDP server for Accounts, subscriptions and Meteor methods.

This package is quite brittle. It relies heavily on private APIs and monkey patching and has been tested by the author on Meteor 1.1. Bug reports welcome.

Usage

1. meteor add budgie:remote-ddp

   If you use accounts-base, or any dependant package, you must edit .meteor/packages to move budgie:remote-ddp above any such packages.

2. Add the remote to your settings JSON file:

   {
     "public": {
   	"remoteDdpUrl": "http://localhost:5000"
     }
   }

3. In your client code, before doing anything that uses DDP, initialise RemoteDDP:

   RemoteDDP.monkeyPatch();

   Note that the Accounts package uses DDP as it is initialised, but this package works around that as a special case (see step 1.).

4. Launch Meteor using your settings file:

   meteor --settings settings.json

Contributing

Please send Issues and Pull Requests to https://github.com/BudgieInWA/meteor-remote-ddp.

Notes

• Based on gwendall:remote-ddp.
• The author is not convinced that the Mongo.Collection support is bulletproof.
• Does not work in Cordova. To access a different server, use the --mobile-server flag instead.