Using local MongoDB instead of minimongo in a new Meteor app development

Question

Is it possible to start a new Meteor project using a local instance of regular MongoDB in place of the default minimongo?

If so, how?

Answer 1

The mongodb running with meteor is still the standard mongodb, minimongo is only the client side implementation of this that allows the browser side to make queries to a collection.

Start meteor like this with your terminal as mentioned on the unofficial meteor faq

MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/database meteor

EDIT:

You can read about this in projectdir/.meteor/local/build/README:

This is a Meteor application bundle. It has only one dependency, node.js (with the 'fibers' package). To run the application:

$ npm install [email protected]
$ export MONGO_URL='mongodb://user:password@host:port/databasename'
$ export ROOT_URL='http://example.com'
$ export MAIL_URL='smtp://user:password@mailhost:port/'
$ node main.js    

Use the PORT environment variable to set the port where the application will listen. The default is 80, but that will require root on most systems.

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