Publishing data

In order to access the post on the client again, we need to tell the server to publish it to subscribing clients.

To do so, we will create a file called publications.js inside the my-meteor-blog/server folder and add the following lines of code:

Meteor.publish('all-posts', function () {
  return Posts.find();
});

The Meteor.publish function will create a publication called all-posts and return a cursor with all the posts from the Post collection in that publication.

Now, we only have to tell the client to subscribe to this publication and we will see our posts again.

We create a file called subscriptions.js inside the my-meteor-blog/client folder with the following content:

Meteor.subscribe('all-posts');

Now, when we check out our website, we can see that our blog posts have reappeared.

This happens because the client will subscribe to the all-posts publication when the subsciptions.js file is executed, which happens right before the page is fully loaded, as...