Summary
In this chapter, we learned how to allow and deny database updates. We set up our own allow and deny rules and saw how methods can improve security by moving sensitive processes to the server side. We also improved our procedure of creating posts by checking whether the slug already exists and adding a simple progress indicator.
If you want to dig deeper into the allow and deny rules or methods, take a look at the following Meteor documentations:
You can find this chapter's code examples at https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/support/17713 or on GitHub at https://github.com/frozeman/book-building-single-page-web-apps-with-meteor/tree/chapter8.
In the next chapter, we will make our interface real time by constantly updating the post's timestamps.
