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Deploy meteor app with git / repository?

I've been searching around the web to see what's the best/simplest way to deploy a meteor app, and have found that Meteor Up has been the easiest way to do this.

However, I've been noticing that this works pretty awesome on small apps, now that one of our apps has grown larger than 250mb, Meteor Up has to build and deploy the whole 250mb app again and again for even the smallest change.

With other node applications we have on digital ocean, a simple git pull does the trick without having to re-upload the entire application.

Is there a way to maintain a meteor application with a github/bitbucket repository?

Thanks!

Solution

  • Well, I have found a solution for this.

    Reference: PM2 + Meteor Environment Setup

    Using meteor build and following the README that it generates, I was able to run the bundle without using meteor up.

    This helps at deploying since it skips the process of uploading the entire bundle to the server, instead, just use git pull in the server to pull your code changes and use meteor build to create the build and run it with pm2.