Meteor as a pure Application Server

Question

I want to use MeteorJS server as a pure Application Server, which means, I only want it to handle Publications and Server Methods. I want to have a dedicated server to serve the HTML, CSS and Javascript bundle to the client but the application would use another server to handle all the DDP connections.

Is there a non-hacky and reliable way to do this?

Would this approach help to scale an application, by removing the static content out of the way?

Answer 1

Meteor is built to do this by providing the capacity to set a separate DDP server as well as .js and .css files with cache busting names.

The DDP server is specified by setting an environment variable with export or when you run your built app. Like this:

DDP_DEFAULT_CONNECTION_URL=http://ddp.yourdomain.com node /yourpath/main.js

There is a tutorial to achieve this with Cloudflare and a gist that explains how to do this with NGINX.