recommended nginx configuration for meteor

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Although I’m not an nginx expert, I feel like I have a much better understanding of how to do this now. As I figure out more I’ll update this answer.

One possible solution to my original question is this:

location ~* "^/[a-z0-9]{40}\.(css|js)$" {
  root /home/ubuntu/app/bundle/programs/web.browser;
  access_log off;
  expires max;
}

Which says: Any URL for this site containing a slash followed by 40 alphanumeric characters + .js or .css, can be found in the web.browser directory. Serve these files statically, don’t write them to the access log, and tell the client that they can be cached forever.

Because the the main css and js files are uniquely named after each bundle operation, this should be safe to do.

I’ll maintain a full version of this example here. It’s also worth noting that I’m using a recent build of nginx which supports WebSockets as talked about here.

Finally, don’t forget to fully enable gzip in your nginx config. My gzip section looks like:

gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
gzip_vary on;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

After doing all that, I was able to get a decent score on pagespeed.

update 9/17/2014:

Updated the paths for meteor 0.9.2.1

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