Deploying a MeteorJS application

Meteor Up and meteor-deployment-manager are a few noticeable deployment tools available for MeteorJS deployment. A common thing about both these tools is that all of them are NPM packages. We have to install them using NPM and run the appropriate commands in the terminal. Let's see them in detail.

Meteor Up

Meteor Up is a popular MeteorJS deployment tool. It only supports deployment for Debian/Ubuntu Linux flavors and Open Solaris target machines at the moment. Mup is a complete solution for MeteorJS application deployment. It builds the application more like what demeteorizer did using the meteor build command and also installs the platform-dependent packages such as Fibers before running the application in the target host.

You can install mup using the npm install -g mup command. There are two steps to complete the deployment using mup. One is to set up mup, and other is to deploy the application. To set up mup, use the mup setup command. It will create the...