Connect two Meteor applications using DDP

Question

I have two applications that I need to synchronise. One of them will receive data from users and the other will display the data. Both applications will work on different se

Answer 1

I got a clue from this question How to properly use Meteor.connect() to connect with another Meteor server. I missed it because it was about the old Meteor.connect() that changed to DDP.connect().

This worked on client and server

var remote = DDP.connect('http://server1.com/');
Items = new Meteor.Collection('items', remote); 

remote.subscribe('items', function() {
  var items = Items.find();
  console.log(items.count());  // get 1         
});

Now I can watch for changes in application 1 from application 2 using Items.find().observe()

Warning

There is a bug on Meteor that will stop the connection between applications:

• https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/1543
• DDP between two servers doesn't reconnect

Update

The bug was solved

Update 2

This is a sample project tested with Meteor 0.6.6.2 https://github.com/camilosw/ddp-servers-test