Is the Meteor JS framework compatible with Google App Engine?

Question

Would it be possible to build and deploy Meteor applications on Google App Engine or are these incompatible technologies?

I know, for example, that Node.js is not compatible with App Engine and Meteor seems similar to Node in some respects.

Answer 1

Meteor creates Node.js applications. Google App Engine does not have a JavaScript runtime, but it does have (in beta as of December 2013), Managed VMs which can run Node.js .

Google Compute Engine (not App Engine) supports the MEAN stack (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node.js), so you can run Meteor on GCE.

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old answer

Meteor relies on node.js and as such will not run on GAE until GAE supports node.js, if ever.

Answer 2

Meteor runs in Google Compute Engine (GCE), we installed it on a GCE vm using the normal installation procedure and runs quite fine.

Answer 3

A better option would be Heroku . They have a Node runtime available, and should give you an experience similar to GAE.

Answer 4

Google does support nodejs. So Yes, it is. Start here: https://developers.google.com/datastore/docs/getstarted/start_nodejs/

Answer 5

I'm pretty sure that meteor depends upon node.js. I seem to remember in the intro screencast a mention of being "able to deploy anywhere node.js is available".