server-render does not work for android/cordova

[ayalpani]

Hi.

Steps to reproduce:

meteor create test-server-render
cd test-server-render/
meteor add server-render
meteor add-platform android

Edit server/main.js:

import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor';
import { onPageLoad } from 'meteor/server-render'

Meteor.startup(() => {
    onPageLoad(sink => {
      sink.appendToBody('<span>Hello World!</span>')
      sink.appendToHead('<meta prop="hello" content="world" />')
    })
});

Then:

meteor run android-device --verbose

The web version http://localhost:3000/ in my browser shows both changes to body and head.

Unfortunately, the app on Android phone doesn't. Neither the head changes (only the boilerplate code shows up), nor the body shows "Hello World!".

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Please help me with this issue. I already spent days solely to solve the issue of changing the boilerplate header code. I also get no responses on the meteor forum. I seem to be the only person in the world, trying to modify the boilerplate code for cordova (to achieve changes to the Content-Security-Policy meta tag).

[benjamn]

Cordova works a bit differently from Meteor's standard webapp package. Specifically, the static boilerplate HTML is generated once, during build, rather than every time you access the app on the device. See the cordova-plugin-meteor-webapp README for more information. This means server-side rendering does not work the same way for Cordova, which is admittedly unfortunate, but that's the best answer I can give you right now.

The CSP rules for Cordova are hard-coded in boilerplate-generator/template-web.cordova.js, so a possible workaround here would be to copy the boilerplate-generator package into your app's local packages/ directory, and then modify that file as necessary. This will override any other version of the boilerplate-generator package that your app might be using.

[ayalpani]

Hi Ben,

thank you for taking the time and for the workaround proposal. I tried copying the package locally as proposed and it did work perfectly.

I love meteor, keep up the good work!