unclear description of WhatsApp 2 tutorial step 3.15

[carstenbaumhoegger]

There's a note after step 3.15 that says

NOTE: meteor-client-side will try to connect to localhost:3000 by default. To change it, simply set a global object named meteor_runtime_config with a property called DDP_DEFAULT_CONNECTION_URL and set whatever server url you'd like to connect to.

I tried to change the default port to http://myip:port by calling export DDP_DEFAULT_CONNECTION_URL=http://myip:port before doing ionic serve but meteor still seems to try to connect to http://localhost:3000

Would it be possible to give a more clear explanation what to to to make Meteor connect to the custom IP?

[dotansimha]

You need to set it as global variable in the JavaScript context, for example:

window.__meteor_runtime_config__= { DDP_DEFAULT_CONNECTION_URL: "..."};

import "meteor-client-side";

It's mentioned in the meteor-client-side pcakage docs (https://github.com/idanwe/meteor-client-side)