How do I REconfigure Meteor's accounts-facebook, or where is Meteor's Facebook configuration?

Question

Meteor\'s accounts-facebook package was very easy to set up. To input the Facebook app ID and secret token, I loaded my meteor web app in a browser, and clicked on

Answer 1

[NOTE: for Meteor >= 1.2.2]

The official Meteor documentation here explains how to do it.

Add the service-configuration package (otherwise you can't use ServiceConfiguration):

$ meteor add service-configuration

Then you can put this in Meteor.startup:

Meteor.startup(function () {

  // Set Facebook app configurations
  ServiceConfiguration.configurations.upsert({ 
    service: "facebook" 
  }, {
    $set: {
      appId: 'YOUR_APP_ID',
      secret: 'YOUR_APP_SECRET'
    }
  });

  return;
});

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Externalize Facebook configurations in settings.json

Perhaps the final solution is to put Facebook app's configurations in a setting file

/settings.json

Like this:

{
  "facebook" : {
    "appId": "APP_ID",
    "secret": "APP_SECRET"
  }
}

Then you have to start your Meteor application with

$ meteor --settings settings.json

in order to load the settings file.

Finally you can load Facebook configurations inside Meteor.startup from the settings file:

Meteor.startup(function () {

  // Load and set Facebook app configurations
  var facebookConfig = Meteor.settings.facebook;
  ServiceConfiguration.configurations.upsert({ 
    service: "facebook" 
  }, {
    $set: {
      appId: facebookConfig.appId,
      secret: facebookConfig.secret
    }
  });

  return;
});