Meteor custom mongodb during development

Question

How would I use a (live running) MongoDB to develop another meteor app? I tried modifying (.meteor/server/server.js) and specifying MONGO_URL to no ava

Answer 1

I found that you should not forget to specify the database to connect to. In my case, I wanted a second Meteor instance to connect to the development MongoDB server from a first instance.

Meteor uses the HTTP port +2 for a development MongoDB, and database 'meteor', so the correct way to start the second server is:

MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:3002/meteor meteor --port=3800