Changing url name for web app - meteor

I am trying out Meteor, and every time I create and run a web app the url is localhost:3000; How do i change this url to whatever I want it to be?
for example, what would i do if I wanted the url of my web app to be www.gravity.com(random example)
Also, if I make a web app with meteor how do I add it to the chrome app store?
And finally, are there any good website to download free css website design templates?
* Sorry if I am asking a lot of "basic" questions, I have just started using meteor and I'm kind of a noob

When you make an app with meteor, you're making it on a local host. This means that the app is not up and running for everyone to see-- if someone else types in localhost:3000 from a different computer, your app will not pop up.
The easiest way to change this is to deploy with meteor--- meteor allows you to deploy to a website hosted on .meteor.com.
So if you want your url to be gravity.meteor.com, simply go to your project directory, and type
meteor deploy gravity.meteor.com
If that name isn't taken, you or anyone else can access your app there.
However, if you do not want it to say ".meteor.com", and instead just want www.gravity.com, you need to buy access to the domain www.gravity.com, and then deploy your app using a different method. You can buy a domain name from sites like godaddy.com. This is significantly harder than just deploying through .meteor.com. If that's something you want to do, here's a good tutorial on deploying using digital ocean.

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Maybe something that will allow me to redirect all the traffic to some other index.html, and be able to manage it from Firebase.
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But given the recent updates to deploy efficiency, it should be pretty low-cost to put up a temporary index.html while making the changes. Alternatively, you could deploy rules (in firebase.json) that temporarily redirect all traffic to a wip.html (for work-in-progress).
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I'm trying to develop a Web Application integrated with Facebook.
I´m using Flash Builder 4.5 and the Adobe Facebook SDK.
The problem is that to test the application I need to upload the files to my webserver to avoid the facebook error.
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