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Deploying a Meteor.JS app to digital ocean servers.

Posted on June 6, 2014

Hi!

I am relatively new to server side development. But I am very interested in learning how to deploy my meteor.js app to my digital ocean account.

I am wondering if it would be possible to develop a step-by-step tutorial to guide me through this process?

Thanks!

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Andrew SB

June 6, 2014

Getting set up with Meteor.JS is simple, just run: <pre> curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh meteor create ~/my_cool_app cd ~/my_cool_app meteor </pre> Now the bare bones app is running at http://your.ip.address:3000 There are a number of ways to deploy a Meteor app you developed locally. Check out: http://docs.meteor.com/#deploying If you create a bundle of your app with: <pre> meteor bundle myapp.tgz </pre> You can copy that to a DigitalOcean droplet and extract it there. You’ll need need node.js and MongoDB installed. You can then extract and run it with: <pre> PORT=3000 MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/myapp node bundle/main.js </pre> To install node.js see: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-node-js-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server To install MongoDB, see: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-mongodb-on-ubuntu-12-04 Let us know how it goes!

arunodasusiripala

June 8, 2014

Use Meteor Up[0]. It it used by many developers to deploy their Meteor app specially on DO. [0] - https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up

JoshJoe

July 7, 2014

You might also need this command (if you are having a problem running meteorite). Also, remember that you don’t need node or npm, just run the command that Andrew gives above (curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh) and meteor brings in node and npm.

export PATH=~/.meteor/tools/latest/bin:$PATH

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