Chapter 4. Application Patterns
This chapter will cover application-wide patterns that share server- and client- side code. With these patterns, your code will become more secure and easier to manage. You will learn the following topics:
- Filtering and paging collections
- Security
- External API
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...
