CODEWITHSUNDEEP
meteor
user1464604
user1464604

Reputation:

cloning a meteor app

Copying a static website, i.e., HTML, CSS, JS is very simple.

Copying a dynamic website, i.e., is difficult due to the server-side scripts.

I'm concerned about cloning any meteor app as most of the server-side scripts are eliminated and the only thing which needs to be copied is the database, the schema can be easily obtained from the meteor live app and data can be easily scraped from the existing meteor app.

If a successful meteor app can be easily cloned, no one would prefer to develop an app on meteor.

Is there a way to stop cloning an existing meteor app?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 644

Answers (1)

Tarang
Tarang

Reputation: 75955

Well, technically a meteor app can be cloned it depends on your directory/file structure & whether you're using it in development mode. If you're using one file and this sort of structure to seperate your code:

if(Meteor.isClient) {

}
if(Meteor.isServer) {

}

Because this file would be sent down to the client so someone can fetch it.

So it might be better to move to this structure

/client  - Place stuff in Meteor.isClient in a new js file
/server  - Place your server side code in a new js file
/public  - Place other public folder stuff

So no one will see the server side scripts, so they can't clone the backend of your app.

Production mode/Dev mode

In addition if you run your Meteor app in 'production mode' the Javascript is packed, handlebars & handlebars templates are precompiled.

In my opinion, it might be actually harder to copy a Meteor app to the previous types of web apps because HTML is rendered on the client side, fetching the html files will actually get back empty html files, if you even prettify the large JS file still leaves back precompiled handlebars templates. In addition files are merged into one!

So thats when it comes to cloning it to another meteor app. Even if getting the client script is available (as with any other stack) there are even more hurdles with Meteor when it comes to replicating the server script:

DDP

Attempting to clone it to a PHP/Server side script stack might be even harder because POST/GET aren't even used, DDP is used instead.

Schema

Width regards to the schema, you can control what the client sees via Meteor.publish, so they won't actually see the whole schema

Upvotes: 3

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