Filtering and paging collections

So far, we have been publishing collections without thinking much about how many documents we are pushing to the client. The more documents we publish, the longer it will take the web page to load. To solve this issue, we are going to learn how to show only a set number of documents and allow the user to navigate through the documents in the collection by either filtering or paging through them.

Filters and pagination are easy to build with Meteor's reactivity.

Router gotchas

Routers will always have two types of parameters that they can accept: query parameters, and normal parameters. Query parameters are the objects that you will commonly see in site URLs followed by a question mark (<url-path>?page=1), while normal parameters are the type that you define within the route URL (<url>/<normal-parameter>/named_route/<normal-parameter-2>). It is a common practice to set query parameters on things such as pagination to keep your routes from...