urlongr

A meteor application that makes URL longer.

Test

  meteor test --driver-package practicalmeteor:mocha

Deployment

Run locally

• Dependencies: node, meteor

1. Install the packages

  npm install

2. Run the meteor application

  meteor --settings settings-dev.json

Run on server

• Dependencies: node, meteor, mongo

1. Build the meteor application. This will output a file named urlongr.tar.gz. You may change the output path.

meteor build --architecture=os.linux.x86_64 .

2. Extract the output file urlongr.tar.gz. It will extract a directory called bundle

  tar -zxvf urlongr.tar.gz

3. Go to the bundle's server directory

  cd /bundle/programs/server

4. Install the packages

  npm install

5. Setup Environment variables for meteor. Check Meteor Docs

    METEOR_SETTINGS='{"DEFAULT_URL_LENGTH": 4000,"DEFAULT_DOMAIN": "test.urlongr.com"}'
    MONGO_URL='mongodb://<mongo_host>/<app>'
    ROOT_URL='http://localhost'
    PORT='80'
    ...

6. Run the application

  node /bundle/main.js

Run on Docker

• Dependencies: node, meteor, docker

1. Build the meteor application. This will output a file named urlongr.tar.gz

meteor build --architecture=os.linux.x86_64 .

2. Extract the output file urlongr.tar.gz. It will extract a directory called bundle

  tar -zxvf urlongr.tar.gz

3. Update docker-compose.yml with the your volume paths and environment variables.
4. Run the container

  docker-compose up