How do I access Meteor's MongoDB from another client, while Meteor is running?
Meteor starts the mongod for you on port 3002 when you run the meteor command, and stores the mongo data file in .meteor/local/db
Output from ps aux | grep 'mongod' shows the mongod command that meteor uses:
/usr/local/meteor/mongodb/bin/mongod --bind_ip 127.0.0.1 --smallfiles --port 3002 --dbpath /path/to/your/project/.meteor/local/dbSo just connect your mongo client accordingly. In python:
>>> import pymongo>>> con = pymongo.Connection(host='127.0.0.1', port=3002)>>> con.database_names()[u'meteor', u'local']UPDATE: unfortunately making changes directly in mongo in this way won't reflect live in the app, but the changes will be reflected on a full page (re)load.
Use the Meteor deployment instructions
The command will look like this:
PORT=3000 MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/myapp node bundle/main.js