How to connect to external MongoDB instance in Meteor?

Question

I would like to find out how to connect to an external MongoDB instance in Meteor.

I have added this environment

Meteor.startup(function () { 
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Answer 1

I don't like to use big repeating command and I was searching for a solution where I will be setting a variable embedded with something so every time I start my meteor app; the MONGO_URL will set to environment automatically. So this what I did:

In the package.json file I replaced the start parameter as below:

"scripts": {
    "start": "MONGO_URL=mongodb://username:password@host_url:portnumber/dbname meteor run"
  },

Now every time I want to run my app; I run npm start instead of meteor or meteor run

Note: there is a disadvantage with that. Your db credentials will be exposed if you put your db credentials to package.json file and add this file to version control.