How can I share MongoDB collections between Meteor apps?

Question

I'd like to be able to have an admin app and a client app for my project. Ideally, I'd like to be able to have a shared MongoDB collection. How would I be able to accomplish this?

I tried creating collections with the same name in two different apps, but found that Meteor will keep the data separate. Any idea what I can do? Thanks.

Answer 1

export MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:3002/meteor

Then run meteor app, it will change the default database meteor uses. So share databases or collections won't be a problem! For administrative reason, I would use a individual MongoDB server managed by myself other than using meteor's internal MongoDB.