Integrate Express.js-REST-Endpoint with Meteor Application

Question

I have a kinda tricky situation: I\'m currently building a full meteor-featured application. But I also need to expose some functionality as REST-Service for automation reas

Answer 1

Meteor is essentially a node app that already exposes a connect http server, which means you can define server routes simply like:

import { WebApp } from 'meteor/webapp';

WebApp.connectHandlers.use('/hello', (req, res, next) => {
  res.writeHead(200);
  res.end('Hello world from your server');
});

If you insist on using express, then you can register your express routes as connect middleware like so:

import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor';
import { WebApp } from 'meteor/webapp';
import express from 'express';

const app = express();

app.get('/api', (req, res) => {
  res.status(200).json({ message: 'Hello from Express!!!'});
});

WebApp.connectHandlers.use(app);

Et voilà!