How to use the existing mongodb in a meteor project?

- QUESTION -

Let's say there is a running mongodb server for a GUI client (by wxPython) for a while. If we are gonna play with meteor with this mongodb server, how to do that?

- ANSWER -

Use the environment variable MONGO_URL. Something like:

export MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/your_db

Replace your_db with meteor or whatever db you want to use.