Meteor Settings on the Client-Side

The Meteor object provided by the framework has a property named settings which is populated from the file settings.json, specified on the command-line when the server is started. There are two main sub-keys:

• private: server-only namespace
• public: key-space published to the client

It’s worth noting that the settings may be modified at run-time, during server bootstrap. Most notably, those modifications affecting the public key-space will be pushed to the client, allowing to compute properties at run-time.

One plausible use-case is the forwarding of environment variables from the server to the client.

Worth mentioning is the fact that Meteor keeps a reference to the public hashmap from which it publish values to the client. For that reason replacing the full object like below won’t work.

Meteor.settings.public = {SETTING_ONE: '1'}

What one needs to do instead is use Object.assign to modify the object instance inplace.

Object.assign(
  Meteor.settings.public,
  {SETTING_ONE: '1'}
)