Admin Microservice

Pipedream of an easy setup admin as a microservice.

Basically, everything has to be stored in a collection and accessed by a second app. (Or does it..?)

Setup (optimisitc)

Existing Meteor app

1. Install meteor add admin-microservice on your main Meteor app

This adds server side code: admin methods, admin publish functions, roles package

Admin Meteor app

1. npm install meteor-admin installs cli tool
2. meteor-amin init generates skeleton admin app, based on github template
3. MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:3001 meteor -p 3100

Main app scans global variables and stores them in a collection: AdminCollections. Admin app generates config file from this collection Admin app generates CRUD functionality

Advantage

• Frontend agnostic
• Much easier to edit code and add templates than in a a package

The Challenges

Getting collection info

1. Via mongo driver _.keys(MongoInternals.defaultRemoteCollectionDriver().mongo._observeMultiplexers) (sometimes misses some depending on state of app)

2. Cycle through top level objects Favorites = new Mongo.Collection('favorites'); -> Favorites._name == 'favorites'

Getting the schemas

SimpleSchema

meteor add admin-collection-2 SimpleSchema instances are converted to JSON and stored in collection

No schemas

Can generate Schemas and add create autoforms based on these

Astronomy

No idea

Other code

Even if the above worked flawlessly (unlikely) it would still be the case that custom publish functions, custom fields didn't work properly.