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Meteor Cookbook

You're reading from   Meteor Cookbook Build elegant full-stack web applications with Meteor, the JavaScript framework that's redefining web development

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783280292
Length 364 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Optimizing Your Workflow 2. Customizing with Packages FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Great User Interfaces 4. Creating Models 5. Implementing DDP 6. Mastering Reactivity 7. Using Client Methods 8. Integrating Third-party Libraries 9. Securing Your Application 10. Working with Accounts 11. Leveraging Advanced Features 12. Creating Useful Projects Index

Implementing a simple collection

Collections are the medium of communication between the client and the server, with changes being pushed down to the client and requests being pushed up to the server. This recipe will show you how and where to declare a collection for use on both the client and the server.

Getting ready

First, you will need Meteor installed and have a project created. To create a standard project file structure, please see the Setting up your project file structure recipe in Chapter 1, Optimizing Your Workflow.

For this particular exercise, you will also need to have the autopublish and insecure packages installed (which are installed by default). If you need to add them, please see the Adding Meteor packages recipe in Chapter 2, Customizing with Packages.

How to do it...

To implement a simple collection, proceed with the following steps:

  1. Create a new file in your both folder, called simple.js.
  2. Open the simple.js file in an editor, and declare a MongoDB comments collection by...
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