absolute URL/Root URL with apollo app using meteor-now

[acomito]

Apollo-Client needs to know the url endpoint to hit. When I dont have a custom domain, I've been setting arbitrary ROOT_URLs. Arbitrary URLs worked fine with meteor apps, but apollo uses the ROOT_URL to connect (or you can give it a uri) but in both cases I have no idea what the URL will be until after the app is deployed. Is there anyway around this without using a custom domain?

Maybe I can run a method on startup to grab this.connection uri and reset the environment variable ROOT_URL?

or maybe vanilla js: window.location.hostname on client

[purplecones]

Have you tried aliasing the deployment to a *.now.sh URL and using that as the root URL? - MJ

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On May 7, 2017, at 9:57 AM, acomito ***@***.***> wrote: Apollo-Client needs to know the url endpoint to hit. When I dont have a custom domain, I've been setting arbitrary ROOT_URLs. Arbitrary URLs worked fine with meteor apps, but apollo uses the ROOT_URL to connect (or you can give it a uri) but in both cases I have no idea what the URL will be until after the app is deployed. Is there anyway around this without using a custom domain? Maybe I can run a method on startup to grab this.connection uri and reset the environment variable ROOT_URL? — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[jkrup]

Yeah #51 explains a possible workaround: you could do something to the effect of

Meteor.methods({
  setRootUrl: (pass, url) {
    if (pass === 'somelongsecretcode') {
      process.env.ROOT_URL = url;
    }
  },
});

Then you'll need to manually call Meteor.call('somelongsecretcode', ' http://iw0e8fh9asdhf.now.sh'), but that should work.