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Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

You're reading from   Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor Build real-time single page apps at lightning speed using the most powerful full-stack JavaScript framework around

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783988129
Length 198 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Meteor 2. Building HTML Templates FREE CHAPTER 3. Storing Data and Handling Collections 4. Controlling the Data Flow 5. Making Our App Versatile with Routing 6. Keeping States with Sessions 7. Users and Permissions 8. Security with the Allow and Deny Rules 9. Advanced Reactivity 10. Deploying Our App 11. Building Our Own Package 12. Testing in Meteor A. Appendix Index

Adding post examples


To query the database for posts, we need to add some post examples. This has to be done on the server, as we want to add them persistently. To add an example post, perform the following steps:

  1. We create a file called main.js inside our my-meteor-blog/server folder. Inside this file, we will use the Meteor.startup() function to execute the code on the start of the server.

  2. We then add the post example, but only when the collection is empty. So to prevent this, we add them every time we restart the server, as follows:

    Meteor.startup(function(){
    
      console.log('Server started');
    
      // #Storing Data -> Adding post examples
      if(Posts.find().count() === 0) {
    
        console.log('Adding dummy posts');
        var dummyPosts = [
          {
            title: 'My First entry',
            slug: 'my-first-entry',
            description: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.',
            text: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...',
            timeCreated: moment().subtract(7,'days').unix(),
            author: 'John Doe'
    ...
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